poetry

Poems by Rose DeMaris

 



Selected Poems


Coming Soon!

Coming soon: Abecedarian on Pondering a Tear ~ Finalist, Beullah Rose Prize ~ Smartish Pace

Coming soon: Telepathy ~ Fence

Coming soon: Yearling ~ Prairie Schooner

Coming soon: Bud Union ~ West Trade Review

Want

Aspen, Trembling ~ Narrative

Pain is the Beam That Penetrates ~ Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly

You Were Never Really Sure What Color Eyes ~ Tupelo Quarterly

Bluing ~ Two Hawks Quarterly

Bird Wife ~ Pine Row Press

Divinity

Red Crop Milk ~ Image, Best New Poets nominee

The Pelican ~ Winner, Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Award

A Tooth of Mary Magdalene ~ Two Hawks Quarterly

Eros

Cherry Leaf Wine ~ Alaska Quarterly Review

Evelyn Nesbit Poses as Bluebeard’s Wives ~ Mayday

Cherries Out of Season ~ Vassar Review

Cosmos

Andromeda Variations ~ Narrative

Titanium ~ New England Review

Lachrymal Madrigal ~ Tupelo Quarterly

Transubstantiation ~ Birdcoat Quarterly

Don’t Cry for All the Loves You’ve Lost ~ Inscape ~ Editor’s Choice Award

Creatures

Doe’s Plea ~ poets.org

Immortal Jellyfish ~ Tupelo Quarterly

A Female Blanket Octopus Unfurls Her Iridescent Cape ~ Tupelo Quarterly

Fish Wife ~ Birdcoat Quarterly

Velvet Variations (an excerpt) ~ Antiphony

Honeyguide ~ Some Kind of Opening

Death

Substitute ~ poets.org

Vessel ~ Winner, Patricia Dobler Poetry Award

Earth

Milkweed ~ Psaltery & Lyre, Best of the Net nominee

I Knew It Was You Who Planted Those Yellow Snapdragons ~ Maiden Magazine

Rose Cane ~ Maiden Magazine

Song of the Barren Orange Tree Nourished by Her Own Fallen Leaves ~ Dewdrop

A New Vocabulary ~ Roanoke Review

Bare Branches ~ Big Sky Journal

Pale Blue ~ Qu


Translations

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On the Train ~ a translation of “Abord” by May Ziadeh ~ poets.org

Twilight ~ a translation of “Crepescule” by May Ziadeh ~ Diode

Goodbye, Lebanon ~ a translation of “Adieu” by May Ziadeh ~ Virginia’s Sisters

3 Poems ~ translations of poems by May Ziadeh ~ The Los Angeles Review

Goodbye, Lebanon ~ a translation of “Adieu” by May Ziadeh ~ Asymptote




Lambent as lunar matter

damp and tangled under dirt,

humming huskily beneath

a stand of aspen trees,

the one true aspen breathes,

births clone after clone…