Dónall Dempsey - ' ' ' ' ' BLANK PAGE(for Byran)

As I type
letters stick to my fingertips.

I peel them off
like fingertips

trying to stick them
down on the page

keep them
in their place

using only the old Churchillian
blood sweat & tears

but they escape
their prison of words

float out of the open
window

or swallowed by
a yawining cat

or throw themselves
upon the open fire

leaving me
with what

I started
with

this blank
page.

Dónall Dempsey

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