rain that rains harder

Erasure poetry and collage about an irreversible decision

Amy Marques grew up between languages and places and learned, from an early age, the multiplicity of narratives. She penned children’s books, barely-read medical papers, and numerous letters before turning to short fiction and visual poetry. She is a Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net nominee and has work published most recently in Streetcake Magazine, MoonPark Review, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, Jellyfish Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Reservoir Road Literary Review. You can read more at amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.

Amy is a returning contributor to Soft Star Magazine with work in both Issue One and Issue Two: Aurora.

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Transcript:

rain that rains harder
she had married
his mistress,
And she
cannot turn back.
They went straight to
the crackle of stars
held in
the sky

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