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, Kaleidoscope 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. 

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is this what it is like
to catch fire and throw it away
I see an edge leaning close
ready for a smothering embrace
I have tried to prepare myself for a shaken heart
but I have felt the touch of thin despair
so soft I could barely feel it
I have drowned in aches
shallow enough to tear deeply and roughly
when I am still scared of the heart
full of rich blood that forgets its mortality
leaving behind the truth
that keeps it from falling

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as another predicted
be it quotations scrolled across the sky at midnight
not a single star placed after my guide had gone astray
with nothing but the worst best intentions
the flavor of the month disbands
in favor of this justice
with a kiss on the lips
oh how you did love me
when I am old
when I am grey
in time with the greatest friendship of all time
I will beautify the moment when he whispered
history deprived you of truth until you wrote about it 

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playing a song
time setting flat
talking freedom or love
raising it against the wind
calling me home