It was supposed to be you, anthem- chested, totem-armed you. I was supposed to hop a Southwest flight to Tennessee and drop the return ticket into
more loveAuthor: Beth Marquez
BETH MARQUEZ has been published in Moontide Press, Valley of the Contemporary Poets, and Ugly Mug anthologies. Her poems were selected for Damfino literary journal’s debut issue and the Like a Girl anthology from Lucid Moose Press, which nominated her poem Shedding for a Pushcart Prize. She is a 2017 Pink Door Fellow. She holds three mathematics degrees, has been writing and performing poetry for over half her life, and was once stranded on a deserted island.