‘A confession’ by Mark Robinson

A confession My friends, I left my foot in and I followed through. I ploughed on when pace left me for dead. I pulled out of simple 50:50s. I chose to stand still and became a wall. I ball-watched, took my eye off it. I made bad decisions and thought I saw passes My limbs could not thread in a month. I got caught in … Continue reading ‘A confession’ by Mark Robinson

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Two poems by Mark Robinson

Primary The trees at school talked to themselves while I held firm and fierce at right back. The dinner hall looked just like it smelt – off white, peeling, corrugated like the cardboard lining my grow-into shoes. A queue of children holding chairs two feet off the ground snaked past. Then a sudden burning dragged me towards a chant with two girls pulling hair … Continue reading Two poems by Mark Robinson

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‘A confession’ by Mark Robinson

Two poems by Mark Robinson