Dónall Dempsey Poems

Here, in the rooms
of my childhood

I, an adult now
...

The Tasadays
(remants of a Stone Age culture)

recently discovered in the Philippines
...

tombstones
dream of the dead

that rest here
...

You walk
through my written words

that I strew
...

It’s not
your hair blown across my face

emeshing me
...

I love your human
beingness

I love where
...

I wander home
lost to the world

wrapped up against the cold
...

DUSO*

This star
was born with you
...

This man
who is not

my father
...

The water doesn't know

itself
as water
...