all those cups
of coffee and miniature
creamers, maybe five,
would fit in a monkey
dish, the sandpipers
outside dancing
on the sunny beach,
I had no time to watch
them, my order
was up, I knew
because my
morse code of dings
had just spilled out
of the speakers
that usually played
fifties pop music
Margaret McGowan is the author of Ancestors and Other Poems (2021). She was a finalist in the 2022 Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Contest and received an honorable mention in the 2019 HVWG Poetry Contest. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in QU, Hobart, MoonPark Review, and others.
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