Eight-line Poems

Amarillo Bound

Amarillo Bound

Out in the west of Oklahoma,
the towns are sparse on the ground.
This is the state’s neglected backyard
where the soil is dry and the buildings tired,
many deserted and leaning to the weather,
the stores designed in the 1950s,
yesterday alive in the atmosphere,
in such contrast to neighbouring Texas.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, March 05 2021
Prompt: Sparse.