Eight-line Poems

Clayton Road 1954

Clayton Road 1954

A horse in a field,
there’s a thing
that digs deep to the memory
of a boy transplanted briefly
to a land both damp and grey,
on his way to an unfamiliar school,
hand in pocket searching
for the sugarlump for his friend.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 02.24.24
Prompt: James Wright’s poem, A Blessing.