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With Niamh in Harcourt Street Children's Hospital

19/11/2016

 
The intravenous drip machine doggedly
hums through the night,
breaks into fits of frantic ticks
as if it wants to fight its way out of the room.
I have my comforts: book, newspaper, flask of tea
and  most importantly: a naggin in my briefcase.
A child wails on the wards, always;
shoes clack on tiles;
you, inscrutably

suck on your soother;
I eye the briefcase.


Published in The Blue Guitar (Salmon Poetry 2011), You've Been Great (Smith/Doorstop 2008) and Snakeskin (Web, 2000)

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    Padraig O'Morain

    I have been writing poetry since around 1990. My work has appeared in Irish and British literary journals and has been published as a collection in The Blue Guitar (Salmon Poetry, 2011) and previously in a short collection called You've Been Great (Smith/Doorstop, 2008) which won a Poetry Business prize the previous year. I have an MA in English and Creative Writing from Lancaster University.

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All the poems here were published in poetry magazines (mostly print), in my collections The Blue Guitar (Salmon Poetry 2011) or You've Been Great (Smith/Doorstop 2008) ​