OHIO LANDSCAPE (July 16th, 2020)
BY DARREN C. DEMAREE.
Pace the sidewalk
with your mask on.
Let the sidewalk
take you to High St.
& join the protests
with your mask on.
Those statues don’t
have masks on.
They don’t care
about the living.
Their weight is
dead weight only.
Darren C. Demaree is the author of fourteen poetry collections, most recently Unfinished Murder Ballads (October 2020, Backlash Press). He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louis Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. 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. You can follow him on Twitter @d_c_demaree.