The Manhunt

• After passionate days and intimate days'

  Speaker is lover/partner of subject
• only then'


  shows it took time to come to term with their injuries
• the frozen river which ran through his face'


  links to the bullet scars that run along his face
• Porcelain collar-bone


  shows the fragility of a broken collar bone
• finger and thumb'


  explore the depth of the injuries that he has
• I bind the struts'

  metaphor makes it seem as if they are mending the ribs
• grazed heart'


  grazed shows that he can recover but the fact that it's the heart means that it could be for life
• I picture the scan'

  remembering the x-ray
• every nerve in his body tightened and closed'

  metaphor showing the subject has PTSD
• The manhunt was based around

  The Bosnian War