poetry

Poems by Rose DeMaris

 


Coming Soon!

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

Yearling ~ Prairie Schooner

Telepathy ~ Fence

Bud Union ~ West Trade Review

Night Prayer ~ Hayden’s Ferry Review

Selected Poems

Titanium ~ New England Review

Aspen, Trembling ~ Narrative

Andromeda Variations ~ Narrative

Doe’s Plea ~ poets.org

Substitute ~ poets.org

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

Red Crop Milk ~ Image

Cherry Leaf Wine ~ Alaska Quarterly Review

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

Vessel ~ Winner, Patricia Dobler Poetry Award

Immortal Jellyfish ~ Tupelo Quarterly

You Were Never Really Sure What Color Eyes ~ Tupelo Quarterly

Lachrymal Madrigal ~ Tupelo Quarterly

A Female Blanket Octopus Unfurls Her Iridescent Cape ~ Tupelo Quarterly

Milkweed ~ Psaltery & Lyre

Evelyn Nesbit Poses as Bluebeard’s Wives ~ Mayday

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

Rose Cane ~ Maiden Magazine

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

Bluing ~ Two Hawks Quarterly

A Tooth of Mary Magdalene (audio recording) ~ Voicemail Poems

A Tooth of Mary Magdalene ~ Two Hawks Quarterly

Fish Wife ~ Birdcoat Quarterly

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

Velvet Variations (an excerpt) ~ Antiphony

A New Vocabulary ~ Roanoke Review

Bird Wife ~ Pine Row Press

Transubstantiation ~ Birdcoat Quarterly

Cherries Out of Season ~ Vassar Review

Honeyguide ~ Some Kind of Opening

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 anthology

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…