Jack Cooper

Coventry, UK

 

A member of Coventry Stanza, Jack has been published by Young Poets Network, Poetry Birmingham, and Under the Radar. He is currently undertaking a PhD in embryonic cell migration at the University of Warwick, and can often be found on Twitter (@JackCooper666)."

 

Date written, 24th April 2020

 

Gilgamesh abandons his kingdom

 

Grief is a tongue-eating louse, plump parasite

perched in my throat, 

taking half of anything I need.

 

Take these robes. Take this name.

I am no king. This is no city.

Uruk is a cairn.

 

I am a horse with human feet 

            and the plains are before me.