Wire Hunger
Experiment # 468623- Style of Ted Hughes about urban wildlife surviving in industrial environments.
Not forest
Not cover
Just glare and metal breath
A fox cuts through it
low
close
stitched to the edge of things
The ground splinters underfoot
shards catching at tendon
slicks of something chemical
sheen that does not belong to rain
It stops at a spill of waste
heat rising faint
a sour sweetness
something already half taken by air
The mouth works
quick
decisive
not tasting
only sorting
Jaw against resistance
a dry snap
a fibre tear
the body accepts it
Above
lines hum
power running invisible routes
a system that does not register this life
The animal lifts its head
ears tuned to fracture
to shift
to interruption
Nothing comes
No signal
no warning
no permission
Movement resumes
Muscle memory
old as marrow
rewritten here
in harder terms
City’s does not see it
fox remains
symbol NO
story Maybe !
A small exact insistence
moving through what is left
Note: These days I’m pairing my writing with images of my own making( or trying to). It feels right to let the words grow a form, something you can stand in front of as well as read. I hope to exhibit one day, so I’m putting more of myself into the work. You deserve nothing less xx



I just love Ted Hughes as you all know - hope I have done this justice