Do slugs look at snails
with resentment?
Similar in form,
gifted the home they weren’t
afforded.

A cosy place to
put your foot up at
the end of a tough day.

Furiously munching weeds,
wishing the birds would
rain
salt
down
on their affluent neighbours.

Shells vacated –
ready for new tenants.

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Charley Lenton-Lyons is a UK-based poet with a background in zoology and social research. Their work explores human-nature entanglements, quiet violence, and ecological absurdity through image-driven poems.