There is a rat in the road squished flat by rubber tyres on repeat being dragged slowly inch by inch along a crude oil canvas as the mid-morning traffic crawls until a jackdaw drops from somewhere overhead to the tarmac where the dead meat rests and starts to go to work Daniel Cartwright-Chaouki is a professional gardener from Birmingham, England. His poetry is informed by a range of themes and ideas. In particular, he focuses on the intersection between people, plants and la