Dónall Dempsey Poems

Learning when I was little
that atoms were the littlest

things that
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COUNTRY HICK SET ADRIFT IN CONTINENTAL DISCO

Girl kisses boy &
Boy kisses girl. Girl kisses
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Tears just
stood there.

Sadness coughed.
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Ahhh...your smile
lights up this room

you, as ever
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The man
in Rembrandt's print room

demonstrates exactly
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The child clasps
her father's hand

in hers
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White surf dances up
curtsies to the beach and
dances back again
again and again and again
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“And! ”

“And what..? ”
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She says she will
if I will.

“So...strip! ”
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I hold you gently
in a stranglehold

the softness of your neck
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