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Good Bones by Maggie Smith Life is short, though I keep this from my children.Life is short, and I’ve shortened minein a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,a thousand deliciously ill-advised waysI’ll keep from my children. The world is at leastfifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservativeestimate, though I keep this from my children.For every bird thereContinue reading “April 25th, 2021 – National Poetry Month”

Threshold by Maggie Smith You want a door you can be            on both sides of at once.                        You want to be           on both sides of here and there, now and then,         Continue reading “April 5th, 2021 – National Poetry Month”