warm and snouting thing

''A warm and snouting thing'' dances delicately between the sizzle of nerves brought on by proximity to sex and the ambiguous stability of commitment and family. These poems emphasise the physicality, not only of desire, but of the human and natural worlds which surround and shape it: springing ferns, ''saddle-soap / and saddle-sores,'' and a vivid scene in which the speaker''s mother boils alive ...