Bio: Margot Brown lives with her husband, Michael Morrison, and a four-pawed Hurricane Katrina evacuee, Miss Kitty.  Margot’s poems have appeared in joyful!, The Shine Journal, The Boston Literary Magazine, The Toronto Quarterly Magazine, The Linnet’s Wings (U.K.), Interrobang?! Zine, and Flutter Poetry Journal.

Poetry by Margot Brown

This is Just to Say

Bertie Mavery, I was not

sorry about your skin

At Seventeen.

Couldn't buy the button-down shirt,

the vee neck mohair sweater or

plaid pleat skirt with matching knee socks.

But my skin was clear.

This is just to say

I wouldn't trade

my skin

for yours.

Coffee Break

It's a twelve-cup Mister Coffee

in a ten-cup kitchen.

For twenty years

she filled it,

measured

umber java,

prevented overflow.

Last night

he lifted the lid,

saw water up

to twelve cups,

ladled down to ten,

then spooned out some grounds

for divorce.