Eight-line Poems

For Andrea 3

For Andrea 3

“I walk like Walter Brennan,”
she says the words openly,
not proud but unashamed,
merely honest in her view,
determined I should know
the worst she can reveal.
And I am lost the deeper
in the pure grace of her words.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 06.29.21
Prompt: Awkward.