The home
& the temple
are quite modest
if you’re passed
out on the steps
that reach them.
Darren Demaree’s poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including the South Dakota Review, Meridian, New Letters, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the author of five poetry collections, most recently, The Nineteen Steps Between Us (2016, After the Pause). He is Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
