Ken Evans – 2016 Battered Moons Competition Winner
I am the wastepaper basket under the desk of a tired poetry competition judge and I’m full.
I’m waiting for the black bag to come again to release me from this heavy weight of 40% hope and 60% despair that has me brimming over.
But this time it’s different, I can sense a poem being uncrumpled, flattened out and reconsidered.
It is, of course, the winning poem and I am glad to give back for once.
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