Dónall Dempsey Poems

You cry softly
nuzzle into my neck.

My collar all
...

“The trouble
with you humans is...”

said the cat
...

Your star
earrings

leave tiny star
...

He stepped
on his guilt

it
...

Lipstick kiss
on a glass

left over from when
...

The cellist's hand
waits outside the music

pauses
...

Memory walks
through these childhood rooms
...

My Aunt & her friends
are wondering (but not
for long) where I’ve gone.
...

I build
a pillow you

a construct to
...

Many people have wrote in and asked just what’s in…what exactly is...the essence of...a Janice kiss. And I am at a loss…to explain...just what it is that it...is.

“Well..? ” I stutter “...it’s.. it’s...why it’s...this & this & this..”
& words fail in their task and fall away into restlessness.
...