Maggie Smith Good Bones

Maggie Smith Good Bones. Good Bones stands as one of the most well-known poems by contemporary American poet Maggie Smith (b Credit This poem originally appeared in Waxwing, Issue 10, in June 2016


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'Good Bones' by Maggie Smith explores the idea that the world is not necessarily a morally good place Life is short, and I've shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I'll keep from my children

Maggie Smith contemplates the past and our future, life and death, childhood and motherhood Good Bones - Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Credit This poem originally appeared in Waxwing, Issue 10, in June 2016

. Also, Maggie has a new book--Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change--coming sooooooon! Life is short, though I keep this from my children.… Maggie Smith is the author of Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017), The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015), and Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005)

. about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful She focuses on the idea that the world is 'fifty percent terrible', that being a 'conservative estimate'