Eight-line Poems

Horizontal

Horizontal

Out there the horizon is flat,
as straight as though honed
by a giant plane in the grip
of some vast carpenter.

Yet even here, on the Great Plains,
there are secret pits and dimples,
hidey holes in the emptiness,
where the sky closes in above.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 11.29.23
Prompt: Write a horizontal poem.