Sailed Ships
I had a phone call
And I ended up apologizing
I apologized
But… left out that
This is what I mean: lies…
holds no moral line
afterwards saying, “I know you’re confused”
I think I had a phone call
I remember setting it up
writing out what to say
planning how to say it
I remembered
I asked
Still
I did that.
(Source: email from Sumitra Singam, as part of the collaborative project, "Are You Willing?")
Amy Marques has been known to call books friends and is on a first name basis with many fictional characters. Her visual art, poetry, and prose has been published in journals such as Streetcake Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, Fictive Dream, Ghost Parachute, and Chicago Quarterly Review. She is the editor and visual artist for the Duets anthology and has an erasure poetry book coming out in 2024 with Full Mood Publishing. https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com
See more of Amy's work in 12.2 and 11.3 and 11.2 and 10.3 and 10.3 and 10.1