Light Came Darkly
your way of language
dry against the bone
a mad scientist god
moving in another direction
driving to a plane beyond
the color
the blue moon
my love
while light came darkly
ripping heart and stone
and a monument crumbling
soft places
and the underground
I am wanting I am wanting
and the never promise
I hear a voice that lasts five centuries
and what I could not deliver
a better world
©2023 Margot Block All rights reserved.
Margot Block has been writing since the age of fourteen and has been published in Zygote Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, Juice, Voices, the Collective Consciousness, Grub Street Literary Magazine, Bakwa Magazine, Cholla Needles, Blank Spaces, Black Scat Review and in the online journals BlazeVox, Kaliedoscope Online, the Bombay Review, Oddball Magazine, Brief Wilderness, the Blotter Literary Magazine, Kritikos:A-Postmodern-Journal-of-Cultural-Sound-Text-&-Image, Scissors and Spackle:A-Journal-of-the-Written-Word, the Big Windows Review, the American Diversity Report & the Lothlorien Poetry Journal blog. She participated in the high school mentorship program with the Manitoba Writers Guild, working with Canadian poet, Carol Rose. She won first prize in a poetry contest with the Writers Collective and an honorable mention in a poetry contest with the Lake Winnipeg Writers Group.