Now Flourish Northern Cardinal

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Darren C. Demaree writes with the authority and magic I imagine thrummed inside the prophecies sybils spoke. His is a pen dipped in the inkwell of Ohio clay and his parchment is the thunderhead of a storm just about to split open. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Now Flourish Northern Cardinal</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> should be celebrated as a tremendous achievement--not just the selected works of a poet who has performed at the height craft for decades but also a cartography of beauty's every corner: devastation and mystery salvation and love. 'let's tell the children / that we are carried by waves / we spent years making'</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>-Todd Dillard author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Ways We Vanish</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance </em></p>