{"id":5434,"date":"2016-09-19T16:32:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=5434"},"modified":"2019-02-11T07:57:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T07:57:51","slug":"what-the-metal-holds-too-long-is-consumed-by-fire-343536-poem-by-darren-c-demaree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/what-the-metal-holds-too-long-is-consumed-by-fire-343536-poem-by-darren-c-demaree\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT THE METAL HOLDS TOO LONG IS CONSUMED BY FIRE #34#35#36. Poem by Darren C. Demaree"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nWHAT THE METAL HOLDS TOO LONG IS CONSUMED BY FIRE #34
\n 
\nThe small, repeatable
\nactions
\n 
\nthat go wrong one time
\nalways snatch
\n 
\nyour throat
\n& divide it up
\n 
\ninto a tributary
\nof failure
\n 
\nthat dumps fire
\ninto more fire, spreads
\n 
\nuntil the harbor
\nbecomes a deep hell.
\n 
\n 
\nWHAT THE METAL HOLDS TOO LONG IS CONSUMED BY FIRE #35
\n 
\nThrow the remaining eggs
\nat the ashes of the silo. Eat
\n 
\nwhat cooks there. Enjoy
\nthe plenty that is nothing
\n 
\nleft to burn. If the house
\ngoes up too, your fingers
\n 
\nwill substitute for the silver
\nthat can never be saved.
\n 
\nWHAT THE METAL HOLDS TOO LONG IS CONSUMED BY FIRE #36
\n 
\nWear the crisping.
\nWear it into town.
\nPick a bar, rural
\nsuperhero, the silo
\nsmoking on your chest
\nis worth a month
\nof free Wild Turkey.<\/strong>
\n 
\n 
\n 
\n 
\nDarren C. Demaree
\n 
\n“Darren is a dangerous dreamer, concocting love poems to his home state, and pastorals to his true love. But there’s always something more beneath the surface: sex and violence, villainy, mutilation, uneasy redemption and troubled ecstasy. These poems are pins pressed deep in the disfigured heart of America. They work a dark magic on the reader \u2014 they’re unsettling in necessary ways.” Christopher Michel
\n 
\n\"Darren-C.-Demaree\"<\/a>
\n 
\nMy poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines\/journals, including the South Dakota Review, Meridian, The Louisville Review, Diagram, <\/em>and the Colorado Review. <\/em>
\n  
\nI am the author of “As We Refer To Our Bodies” <\/em>(2013, 8th House), “Temporary Champions”<\/em> (2014, Main Street Rag), “The Pony Governor” <\/em>(2015, After the Pause Press), and “Not For Art Nor Prayer”<\/em> (2015, 8th House). I am the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology.
\n 
\nI am currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with my wife and children.<\/strong>
\n 
\n 
\n 
\nwww.facebook.com\/PoetryLifeTimes<\/a>
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\n robin@artvilla.com<\/a>
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\n 
\n goodreads.com\/author\/show\/Robin Ouzman Hislop<\/a><\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.aquillrelle.com\/authorrobin.htm<\/a><\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.amazon.com. All the Babble of the Souk. Robin Ouzman Hislop<\/a>
\nwww.lulu.com. All the Babble of the Souk. Robin Ouzman Hislop <\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/author\/robinouzmanhislop<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.innerchildpress.com\/robin-ouzman-hislop.All the Babble of the Souk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  WHAT THE METAL HOLDS TOO LONG IS CONSUMED BY FIRE #34   The small, repeatable actions   that go wrong one time always snatch   your throat & divide it up   into a tributary of failure   that dumps fire into more fire, spreads   until the harbor becomes a deep hell.   … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[695,43],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5434"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6816,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions\/6816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}