Thank you, Anni. Maybe I'm a masochist because I do like making things difficult for myself. I considered rhyming each line as well, but that was a bridge too far. Perhaps next time...
The CNA bookshop in Pietermaritzburg,
is a tall, narrow, three-sided tower,
and in my day the roof was accessible,
a study in height indeed, a lesson
in the acquisition of acrophobia.
On that high, tiny, and unbounded space,
I was an ant on the head of a pin,
raised in frozen fear above the streets below.
Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 12.08.23
Prompt: Write a towering poem.
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