the space in which the rat
moves
is the gap between floor and ceiling
the bounds
of the home
he is making
sensing
marking
alert to my scratchings
I know his purpose
what
I am to him
is something
moving
and breathing
waking
and sleeping
in the gap between floor and ceiling
GARETH WRITER-DAVIES: Shortlisted Bridport Prize (2014 and 2017), Erbacce Prize (2014), Commended Prole Laureate Competition (2015), Prole Laureate for 2017, Commended Welsh Poetry Competition (2015), Highly Commended in 2017. His pamphlet “Bodies” 2015 (Indigo Dreams) and “Cry Baby” 2017. His first collection “The Lover’s Pinch” (Arenig Press) was published June, 2018.
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