Darren C. Demaree

A NIGHT SO BEAUTIFUL WE HAD TO BURN DOWN THE SENATOR’S HOUSE #43

A night that will not
end
fears only one thing.

 

 

 

A NIGHT SO BEAUTIFUL WE HAD TO BURN DOWN THE SENATOR’S HOUSE #44

The soft light
before the real light
tastes like blood

unable to leave
the pond
of its creation

& that worthless
memory hangs on
for months, years.

 

 

A NIGHT SO BEAUTIFUL WE HAD TO BURN DOWN THE SENATOR’S HOUSE #45

We were naked
so we walked
in the fields

slowly. We could
see the police
cruisers passing

us while they looked
for the car we parked
near the manmade

lake. They still
wanted to arrest us

for trespassing,
for busting
that Denney’s window,
for being bare

& drunk,
for having sex
in front of horses?

There’s no way
they knew we would
set fire to the empty

house that first
held that Senator like
fire wasn’t coming

for him directly.

 

Darren C. Demaree is the author of six poetry collections, most recently 'Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly' (2016, 8th House Publishing). His seventh collection 'Two Towns Over' was selected as the winner of the Louise Bogan Award by Trio House Press, and is forthcoming in March of 2018. Demaree is Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. 

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