Dónall Dempsey Poems

There was not
a single human

being
...

I carry you
before me

carefully cradled
...

I bounce her
on my knee

sing songs
...

Murder mystery.
At last the killer’s name is...
revealed: but hides now
behind the blood on the page
...

I remember yellow
being the new black.

Then pink
...

The lightbulb
sneezed.

“Fsssttt! ”
...

Birdsong.

As he lay there
he became aware
...

I wash her hair
for her.

She loves the ritual
...

Come home from
work

into this
...

She scares me
as if she were

a mythical monster
...