Finished #Poguemahone
#PatrickMcCabe

in Una Fogarty's Mawla Bag
Of Wonderland Imaginings
encircled by…
a Painted Lady…
it performed a little curtsey…
& then was gone
through the open window…
ferrying reports of Una's eulogies
& all of that Summer's memories
that she treasured now
& would, always…

#Poguemahone
#PatrickMcCabe

crying & picking fights…
when she's feeling upset…
bout of the dreaded…
what we call the imni…
another word for anxiety or depression,
in Gaelic…
what it's like
when the V-1s have appeared
hanging there in silence…
frozen in the air…
above your head…
ready to come in…

#Poguemahone
#PatrickMcCabe

She says,
without so much as a
by-your-leave…
when - whee! - you hear
this rocket
it's a V-1
& then you hear nothing
until down it comes
& another wall
or gable-end tumbles
gone, as so many memories
before
reduced to rubble forever.