Poem for Katie, Queen of Ohio #47
DARREN DEMAREE
I have filled your nursery
with blooming flowers,
so that when you’re born
in March they will have left
only the scent of once
beautiful, of once attached
to roots that fed that beauty.
It will be unpleasant
at first. We’ll remove all
of the dead flowers
once you’re born. These rituals
are important to me.
Darren C. Demaree’s poems have appeared in numerous magazines/journals, including Diode, Meridian, New Letters, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Two Towns Over (March 2018), which was selected as the winner of the Louise Bogan Award by Trio House Press. He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. Mr. Demaree currently lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.