Dónall Dempsey Poems

The 'me'
inside the mirror

smiled
...

The poison only made me
throw up

all over my good
...

You explain
in deadly earnest

how the talons
...

White Mini
drives right up to

the sea’s edge
...

All went well until
I dropped my paella

on my crotch
...

'Death is a somewhere else
altogether...'

'I would like to
...

The wind
talking with the voices

of the trees
...

That summer
that held him as a child

he watched in wonder
...

Midnight at the museum
& the costumes come alive

paintings step
...

I peer inside
Van Gogh's

little red lacquer box
...