Unemployment
Their Corporate Majesty that lately came and went
bestowed access to calories and pension plans
and encrypted servers – gone now, leaving me
this goosedown fleece, bearing their culty brand,
that keeps me warm in the sun-bright, breeze-cooled
garden, unmoored now from the daily touchbase,
observed carefully by the busy singing birds.
Fin Keegan‘s recent poetry appears in Propel (England), Howl, Channel, Drawn to the Light Press, Swerve (all Ireland) and the Amsterdam Quarterly; his poems were also shortlisted for the Overton Poetry Pamphlet Prize in 2024 and the Bournemouth Writing Prize and Fish Poetry Prize the year before. He lives on Clew Bay in the West of Ireland.
The Marbled Sigh 