living space

• "nails clutch at open seams"
• "bright thin walls of faith"
• "someone has squeezed a living space"
• "whole structure leans dangerously towards the miraculous"
• "eggs in a wire basket"
• the title represents a place where someone lives but it feels impersonal and just a shelter
• the theme in the poem is place
• Dharker lived in Pakistan but moved to Edinburgh
• the poem is about the slums in mumbai