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so shove your crystal ball
bury it at moonlight
vague
we never claimed to understand
the shallow water
the sand
in your memory
I rise up unheroic
the best second memory
she combs her hair blue
and says she understands
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goodbye
sweet word against the light
spoken at the end with a fall in mind
and if we believe in nothing more beautiful
and your movement still
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all that slides down my spine
is what I want to remember more
and of soulless beauty
let us say I took more
passion bound
and footsteps to a Chinese century
to call me lover that was the thing in mind
to breathe beyond your metal bars
and when we leave each other we beg to be forgiven
to fall each time beyond the crowd
curved around the corners of your soul
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, Cholla Needles, the Black Scat Review, Blank Spaces, Bakwa Magazine, Impspired Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, the Taj Mahal Review and the online journals BlazeVox, Kaleidoscope Online, Kritikos: A-Postmodern-Journal-of-Cultural-Sound-Text-&-Image, the Blotter Rag, Brief Wilderness, Scissors and Spackle: A-Journal-of-the-Written-Word, the Bombay Review, Oddball Magazine, the Big Windows Review, the American Diversity Report, the Lothlorien Poetry Journal blog, Rusty Truck, Literary Yard, Cajun Mutt Press, the Poppy Road Review, Travel Artist Hub, Voices & Visions Literary Journal, Chrysalis Arts & Literature Journal, Breaking Ground, Quail Bell Magazine, the Write Launch, the Stick Figure Quarterly, Poetry Super Highway, the Nature of Our Times & Orbis Quarterly International Literary Journal. 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.