Rubbish
We pull our little rubbish houses round us for comfort and squinch down we're frightened don't take our house away don't swipe the foodbank food from our plates great hands of the mighty are greedy hands we pull our little houses snuggle-close their thin walls won't bear the wolfish breath huffing our house down we're scared great hands fling us to the wolf not even the straws belong to us PENELOPE SHUTTLE Penelope Shuttle lives in Cornwall. Two books are forthcoming: Heath (in collaboration with John Greening) from Nine Arches Press, 2016, and Will you walk a little faster, from Bloodaxe, 2017. |