i told my children the silence is very clear there is less sorrow in the
world than there could be we are upon the fog and not under it we
are stable amidst the disappearing we have not disappeared we can
walk together and speak of love or baseball or gardens that almost
grow perfect carrots and none of that will doom anybody or we could
just walk together together together and collect the memory of every
animal that passes us with an agenda so pure we are not seen by any
of them
Header photograph © Jason D. Ramsey.
Darren’s poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including Hotel Amerika, 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 also Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. Darren is currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
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