Moments
Margo Davis
Moments
filled with chatter, a way of prolonging
the inevitable good night. Good
bye. No, thanks.
Just friends.
Moments husked and blown. Leisure has its way
with poor timing.
What happened
to those years between love for another
and another’s love for a me I cannot be,
day or night. Certainly not in daylight.
Waiting while keeping busy has kept me
from being.
Productivity,
overrated. What’s impressive about back-to-back
engagements?
Odd couplings. Short-term
commitments cut long-running issues into
bite sizes.
What do statistics
say? Men live longer if married. But then,
mercy’s quality is strained.
Margo Davis
Twice nominated for a Pushcart, Margo’s poems have appeared in Ekphrastic Review, What Rough Beast, Ocotillo Review, The Fourth River, Misfit, Light, Houston Chronicle, and San Antonio Express. Anthology publications include Enchantment of the Ordinary, Echoes of the Cordillera, Untamable City: Poems on the Nature of Houston, numerous Texas Poetry Calendars, and Houston Poetry Fest. Margo thrives on closely observing film, photos, and natural settings. And she openly eavesdrops.