"note book drawings" by Ira Joel Haber
Emily as Later, Jolted From a Dream
There are giant bones
in Emily’s dreams
& they hold up the giant legs
of giant people
& when they walk, each step
takes away the sharp-edged light
of Ohio
& each direction they choose
becomes nostalgic
for the simple foliage
& that is what Emily does
in her dreams, she plants
cheap bushes where giants
have walked.
That’s beautiful
I tell her all of the time
& she says that she really wishes
that the giants, with their legs
that can ruin everything,
didn’t, each of them, have my face.
No matter, I tell her all of the time,
I think it’s really lovely,
how you frame our world
& have a passion
to tend to everything
that I have tried to destroy.
Darren C. Demaree
There are giant bones
in Emily’s dreams
& they hold up the giant legs
of giant people
& when they walk, each step
takes away the sharp-edged light
of Ohio
& each direction they choose
becomes nostalgic
for the simple foliage
& that is what Emily does
in her dreams, she plants
cheap bushes where giants
have walked.
That’s beautiful
I tell her all of the time
& she says that she really wishes
that the giants, with their legs
that can ruin everything,
didn’t, each of them, have my face.
No matter, I tell her all of the time,
I think it’s really lovely,
how you frame our world
& have a passion
to tend to everything
that I have tried to destroy.
Darren C. Demaree
Darren C. Demaree's poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including the South Dakota Review, Meridian, The Louisville Review, Grist, and the Colorado Review. He is the author of "As We Refer To Our Bodies" (2013, 8th House), "Temporary Champions" (2014, Main Street Rag), and "Not For Art Nor Prayer" (2015, 8th House). He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology. He is currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Europe and he has had 9 one man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum & The Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
