Emily as a Sparklehorse Song
A body finds little stars
that are dying all the time.
Regardless,
if the little star has touched
Emily, I put it in my mouth.
This is no slender thread
being broken
by my attentions. Each
dull fire becomes twinned
with my clenched love.
What a museum I’ll become
if I regret nothing.
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Darren C. Demaree is the author of twenty-five full-length poetry collections, most recently Got There: Poems on Vanishing (April Gloaming Publishing, 2026). He is the recipient of a Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is currently working in the Columbus Metropolitan Library system.
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Christine Naprava is a hobby photographer based in New Jersey.
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