Amy Marguerite reads ‘keep this true’

keep this true
       for blair

i jokingly suggest you change
your relationship status to
it’s complicated & i’ll change
mine to engaged we have exactly
six mutual friends on here probably
a matt & you know which freckles
to kiss to keep this true call them
fret markers or like don’t when
bree asks if we’re………Official
is that the rehearsal what steve albini
wrote in his letter to nirvana
the licking pattern of which dog
at the bowl it’s only complicated
if you paraphrase the dream
in which i meet you at the airport
with my girlfriend because i love you
like no amen at all & meaningful clutter
is a brilliant title for a poem
or a song………i won’t call this that you can
have it i’m not even talking about
your house just maybe a busy gap
our bodies on a sunday the novel somebody
else writes on the plane in this
heat anything is nowhere else a thing
i used to have a thing for &
this is new & great & new & pinched
harmonics in my search bar

Amy Marguerite

Amy Marguerite (she/her) is a poet and essayist based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2022. Her poetry has appeared in Spoiled Fruit, the NZ Poetry Society Anthology white-hot heart and various literary journals. Amy is currently working towards the publication of her debut poetry collection.