#PatrickMccabe
PatrickMcCabe is not a horror writer but his stuff is horror, to me.
October 4, 2024 at 11:03 AM
#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.
March 6, 2026 at 11:32 AM
#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…
March 12, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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…
March 24, 2026 at 11:12 AM