manhunt

• after the first phase
• passionate nights and intimate days
• only then (repeated)
• 'handle and hold' 'mind and attend'
• foetus of metal beneath his chest
• widened the search
• every nerve in his body had tightened and closed
• then, and only then, did i come close
• the poem is written by Simon armitage, but is written from the perspective on a soldiers wife
• Eddie (the soldier) was severely injured in the bosnian war
• written for a documentary about the long lasting effects of war