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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.
December 22, 2023 at 7:09am
December 22, 2023 at 7:09am
#1061297
An old Yale-type lock on weathered surface.


The Lock

The lock presents itself,
like an eye weeping
bitter, midnight tears,
streaming down a mottled skin
bloodstained with defence,
and offers, enigmatic,
in archèd brow,
a choice of gee or zee.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 12.22.23
Prompt: As per illustration.



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