A Literary Magazine
She thought she finally understood why people would tag the exact happening place of a death with wreaths of textile blooms, bleached as gray as their sticks. It wasn’t that anyone wanted to mark the violence of the passing. More that they wanted to fix the passing itself—the spot, the moment. To say, You were here. And here you stopped being you. Here you had to find your way and I could not go with you.
Amy Marques has been known to call books friends and is on a first name basis with many fictional characters. She has visual art, poetry, and prose published in journals such as Fictive Dream, Unlost, Ghost Parachute, BOOTH, Raw Lit, and Chicago Quarterly Review. She is the editor and visual artist for the Duets anthology and author and artist of the found poetry book PARTS. More at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.
