Margo Davis
Rupture
Why make memories when every incident in my head plays not exactly how I see things but precise and unique in the way my world is solely mine, defined by what makes me both sigh and laugh at crass disaster befalling Daphnia, a common water flea unable to resist Utricularia, a swaying lush water flower that flaunts its rapture to imprison naïve prey. Daphnia probes with antennae and digests her dilemma. Eaten by an acidic rootless flytrap, a commoner, Bladderwort.
Poems by Margo Davis have appeared in Ekphrastic Review, Ocotillo Review, The Fourth River, Misfit, Light, Houston Chronicle, and San Antonio Express, among others. Her work has appeared in several anthologies including Enchantment of the Ordinary (Mutabilis Press, 2019), edited by John Gorman; Echoes of the Cordillera: Attitudes and Latitudes Along the Great Divide (Museum of the Big Bend, 2018), edited by Lucy Griffith and Sandi Stromberg; and Untameable City: Poems on the Nature of Houston (Mutabilis Press, 2015), edited by Sandi Stromberg.
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