Dónall Dempsey Poems

RAPE & BONDAGE

Female friends chatting
about where they had conceived.
...

Love
tracked me down

found out
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ME & MY SHADOW

Eager to kiss you
my shadow
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CHIPS OFF THE OLD BLOKE

This face(our face) is
passed amongst us three...brothers.
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Sheepdog herds the clouds
into just the one big field
rest of sky so blue
stray sheep maaing from here to
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She was making such a drama
out of it.

So, I (to un-drama it)
...

The static
off of her

mohair jacket
...

I doesn't matter
what is

showing.
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The wind skirts
the lake

fingering the hem
...

Dad sneezed &
...sneezed again.

The sky grew a cloud
...