bone requires bone #13-15

bone requires bone #13

i offered to become the brick wall men could crack their skulls against i did not expect so many ohioans to take me up on that offer

bone requires bone #14

too often treated as a small lump empathy empathy empathy is the ending of just enough men to make it worth being everything we need more of it should be glowing by now that is how much we need it there should be fools rushing over mountains to bring some back to the city they should be rich for a decade off of what they can carry in their hands

bone requires bone #15

my favorite stories are what happens when the leather cannot be chewed enough to make it anything other than the hide of the fallen

Darren C. Demaree is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Two Towns Over, which was selected the winner of the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press.  He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry.  He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.