All All #22
A foam rises. A foam is buried.
The serious drama comes when mouths
choose a phantom tongue. A lamp can’t be
witness if the windows are blacked out.
A revolution can’t wait for you.
Are you rising? Are you foraging?
Are you near water? There’s still some time.
There’s enough time for you to finish
this poem, but not really. Go now.
Darren C. Demaree is the author of twenty-four poetry collections, most recently “Now Flourish Northern Cardinal”, (Small Harbor Publishing, November 2025). He is the recipient of a Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is currently working in the Columbus Metropolitan Library system.
