with the spoon as it waits for honey

i came here

for the show

i wait in

the metal

as cheap as

it might be

because i’ve

been shown sweet

honey as

the iris

of a day

with patience

Darren Demaree writes: “My poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including Hotel Amerika, Diode, North American Review, New Letters, Diagram, and the Colorado Review.

I am the author of fourteen poetry collections, most recently 'Unfinished Murder Ballads' (October 2020, Backlash Press). I am the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry.

I am currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with my wife and children.”