Margo Davis
Sunday Worship
Ray says something about honor
and quiet, here on Bayou Lafourche,
only I can’t hear him for the whirr
of the motor. He must have read my face
for he pantomimes, what what?
I want to tell him there’s no sport in
tricking catfish into gill nets, no grace,
but I know this to be trawling
for trouble. Ray worries the waters
among stumps he insists all look alike.
Above swamp fog, a blue heron lifts
then glides above cattails before
easing me onto safer ground.
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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