Emily as a Smoky, Bluish Air

                   Darren Demaree

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The best sadness
always threatens to disappear
& I call her Emily.

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Darren Demaree is the author of five poetry collections, most recently, The Nineteen Steps Between Us (2016, After the Pause). He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. His poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear, in numerous magazines and journals, including The South Dakota Review, Meridian, New Letters, Diagram, and The Colorado Review.