Under My Thumb: What living with chronic pain has taught me

Poet and artist Frieda Hughes was attacked by a squirmin’ feral cat – she’s desperate to take it easy, but the shock won’t let her

...a guitar is out of the question, I can paint / As if holding chopsticks badly, and write about it (Frieda Hughes)

PLASTIC SKIN

The plastic skin they dressed three fingers in

After the rescued cat clawed its pound of flesh