Split the Difference, by Demetrius Reece

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

A hot summer night. A boy standing between his mother and an angry man. That boy, now grown, on his knees in the desert, begging for water. Split the Difference is, in many ways, a cry for help: a child and a poet and a lover all looking out from inside a man. At its core it asks, what can poetry do about the undoable?

The three-body problem refers to the way three independent bodies affect each other’s orbit. It has no solution, but that doesn’t stop Reece from attempting to puzzle it out in the pages of this collection. What effect do people have on each other? Is trying to be good a fitting substitute for the real thing? How much money would it cost to fix a broken heart?

His hope is that in the reading, the solution he’s been chasing comes to you, the reader.

Demetri grew up traveling the country with his family and has been writing poetry about life and love as long as he's been able to hold a pencil. When he's not writing, he can be found making music or in a museum. He loves art in all forms an believes that there is beauty in all things. Split the Difference is his first published collection. He currently lives in Virginia.