Dónall Dempsey Poems

I should have known
there was something fishy going on.

You, lying there
...

She shapes the words

as if to construct
a makeshift key
...

Although I very much
appreciate it
you in a welder’s mask
...

I turned left
at: 'Uh oh...big mistake! '
Kept going straight
...

In the dark
kiss after kiss

flutters between
my shoulder blades
...

Crazy Loneliness Hijacks Memory of a Beautiful Girl


Last night
...

Like a perfect little planet
the tiniest strawberry of ever & ever

sat in the universe
...

Love

like voodoo
I
...

Ah…I thought as much!
And so it has come

to this pretty pass
...

I trace
with trembling fingertip

the naked caligraphy
...