Emily As a Fifth Tattoo

 

The spell

& form

of Emily

 

is no longer

temptation

only

 

& when I

didn’t fidget

at all

 

as the needle

action(ed)

into my ribs,

 

Eddie said

my skin was

really soaking

 

her up

this time.  He

was impressed

 

by Emily, her

dark math,

her mining

 

of my body

that rejoiced

in being

 

an element

found to be

possible heat.

 

 

Emily As a Correlative Truth

 

Emily is Emily

because I am

me. She would

 

be a different

Emily without

me. That Emily

 

would be better,

but far less

important to

 

the Emily in

this poem that

exists beyond

 

this poem.

Emily is Emily,

but that is

 

a certainty

based on Emily

& based on me.

 

by Darren Demaree

 

Darren’s poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including the South Dakota Review, Meridian, The Louisville Review, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the author of “As We Refer To Our Bodies” (2013, 8th House), “Temporary Champions” (2014, Main Street Rag), “The Pony Governor” (2015, After the Pause Press), and “Not For Art Nor Prayer” (2015, 8th House). Darren is Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology.

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