i told my daughter there is a small song a loose skin a lip bend an
obvious note or two in every day that could be folded into the
minutes but you choose to roll around your tongue and release into
the echo that always returns to tease your tongue in the best of life’s
inelegant displays don’t tell me what you call it just promise me you’ll
be as playful with the world as it is with you that you’ll sing nonsense
amidst the nonsense and smile because it’s all yours
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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