Rat

a 'graft' for Edwin Morgan

The rat catches
in the catch of the rattrap; is mangled
rat-tra
The double-t stretched like a spring
on the breezeblock floor
in the bark shed warmed by the burner.

On my spade now; one more word I have killed
and hurled, a form cleaving to it.
The rigid claws are pale
as the light rows over the garden.

–Daniel Fraser

Daniel Fraser is a writer from Yorkshire. The author of Lung Iron (ignitionpress), his work can be found in places like: HAD, London Magazine, LA Review of Books, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, The Drift, and X-R-A-Y. He lives on the Irish coast with his twin boys