
POEM Robert Harper
NWR Issue 111The Judge
the tired falls from his eyes
a drooping
a lacklustre lilly-pungent flop
a stuck
dreamflight
tarmac-idle
8 hours shifting
sleepself
to unself
& backself
before
the drop
before he
unknows day
before his wings shake off the gownweight
of eloquence
gavel-greased
before calling
silently
into the blacks
of his eyelids
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Robert Harper’s poetry has been published in a variety of journals including
The Interpreter's House; Prole; Acumen; The Lonely Crowd, and
Ink, Sweat & Tears, as well as in anthologies such as
#2Poetry Anthology (Vanguard Editions);
Fathers and What Must be Said; A New Manchester Alphabet and
An Anthology to Seamus Heaney. He was Highly Commended in the Poetry Book Society Student Poetry Competition 2014, and is currently completing an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Robert is the editor of Bare Fiction magazine.
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