5/14/25

by Darren C. Demaree

Let’s worry
about the soul
after the modern world

lets us live
on our two legs.
I’m tired

of crawling through
these terrible games.
The goats

have questions
about what we’re doing
on all fours

in their grasses.
I don’t have the heart
to tell them

about our bullet skies
& border lives,
about nations

poisoning their people
instead of praying
for more rain.

It’s a torch tale.
Run to the fires
with your own fire.