Julie Wheeler's caught my attention immediately with its opening lines. She took a familiar metaphor (He devoured her with his eyes) and added an original twist that brought the image to life with gritty reality. The entire poem extends and sustains this image of destruction to develop the character of what Julie describes as "a wanna be lover; he is just chipping chipping shady as a fox to get some piece of you, anything . . . ."
The Thief in a Hungry Man
His eyes eat you up
from Portsmouth Herald News: Poems from the Hoot
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