Death Rattle

Death Rattle is a veritable and kaleidoscopic portrayal of the isolation joy and abandonment that beats and thrums within the cosmopolite of a city's restless heart.It is a trilogy comprised of poems narratives lyrics and aphorisms springing out of Oslo's subterranean streets. The duality of the city and the rural act as a backcloth where love lust and loss flourish wildly.For Hughes the city is female a fleeting alluring and violable symbol the rural a sacred poetic resource gilded with solace delusion and healing.Through choice encounters and an array of personae the poet bestows with flinty wit ruthless reasoning and solemn reflection a wistful eye upon the menagerie of the city's inhabitants.