GLOBAL POSITIONING

Sunday night,
Lost in the suburbs of Boston ,
We press the OnStar button,
Whether by vanity
Or technophobia,
Something we had not done,
And in this moment
It came to me,
As it had not that morning:
Someone knew
Exactly where we were.


Robert Demaree's first book-length collection of poems, Fathers and Teachers, was published April 2007 by Beech River Books. He has written two other short collections, a History of Greensboro Day School, and has had over 275 poems published or accepted by approximately 75 periodicals, including Cold Mountain Review, Elk River Review, Louisville Review, Maelstrom, Mobius, Millers Pond, Paris/Atlantic, Pegasus, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Red River Review, Red Wheelbarrow and Thorny Locust.