Marc DeLuca
Writer · Poet
Better Places is a collection of narrative free verse about memory, place, and the ordinary moments that stay with us. Moving through back roads, small towns, mountains, rivers, and everyday encounters, these poems find meaning in the things we often pass without noticing.
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Lantern
Longing for something more
I lift my eyes toward the fading light.
A lantern glows softly at the edge of evening
steady and patient against the dark below.
Water slips past the rocks and pebbles of the creek
bending where it must.
Giving way without surrender
never asking permission to move on.
I stand there awhile
watching both
and wondering which one has it right?
The lantern that stays,
or the water that keeps going?
Rental Store
The world is like a big rental store.
You don't really own anything.
You just keep it for a little while
then hand it back.
Love, hurt, anger, jealousy.
Joy.
They all pass through us.
Then quietly
move on.
About Marc
Marc DeLuca is a writer and poet from North Carolina. A lifelong journal keeper, he has long been drawn to the people, places, and ordinary moments that stay with us.
That curiosity has also taken him far from the familiar. He bicycled across America from Virginia to Oregon, completed a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, and became the 12th person to circumnavigate the entire coast of Florida by kayak in one season. Each journey meant months on the move, traveling under his own power and experiencing the country at a pace that left plenty of time to notice the people, landscapes, and unexpected moments along the way.
His writing grows from much the same habit: paying attention. When he isn’t writing Marc enjoys fly fishing, spending time outdoors, and wandering the Blue Ridge Mountains where there is rarely a shortage of things worth noticing.