‘Autocorrect’ by Mícheál McCann

Perhaps the entire library
heard his herald. A flugelhorn with a sense of humour
and a tuning I can’t quite find.

I hope you have a lonely afternoon.

New message.

I meant lovely.

From issue #8: spring/summer 2019

About the Author
Mícheál McCann is a postgraduate student at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. His poems appear in Poetry Ireland Review, The Poetry Jukebox installation and The Open Ear. Some of his poems have been set to music for the International Derry Choral Festival. Also, dog poems are the only canon he is interested in.