One Day At A Time Poem by Dónall Dempsey

One Day At A Time



ONE DAY AT A TIME

Creases line your face
you are a bit frayed

about the edges.

I unfold
your smile.

Hold you
in the palm of my hand.

You stare
at me

as you always do
while I refold your smile

put you
back into my wallet

(the fact of your death
quickly tucked away)

as night
gathers me

softly
to itself

streetlights
with yellow eyes

watching me
dissolve

...in mist.

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Dónall Dempsey

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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