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Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present .
The number of poems enforces the use of blog format with ten poems per page.
October 10, 2022 at 2:55pm
October 10, 2022 at 2:55pm
#1039013
Fly Swats

Out in Africa
the fly swat is a status symbol
held like a sceptre
in kingly hand.

Swats made of animal tails:
imagine the size of insect
required by the swat
of a giraffe’s tail.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 10.10.22
Prompt: An adult giraffe’s tail averages about 8 feet – longest tail of all land animals.


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