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Maggie Smith, "Good Bones" from Waxwing. Copyright © 2016 by Maggie Smith. Reprinted by permission of Waxwingmagazine. Source: Waxwing magazine (Issue IX, Summer 2016) (2016) Share. More About This Poem. Related. Collection. Poems of Anxiety and Uncertainty.
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Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.
2 paź 2017 · As Smith tells us in Good Bones, “This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.” Much more than its title poem, this intimate poetry collection is meant for all of us, a way to explore the best and worst parts of our world.
Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful. Available as a signed broadside from Tupelo Press
4 kwi 2021 · Good Bones by Maggie Smith. 1. I don’t know anymore, I wrote the other night, talking to no one in particular. I just want to survive. I want to be safe. I want my loved ones not to die. I want my grief to have an end. I want to open my eyes every morning saying it’s going to be a good day, instead of not today not today not today. 2.
Good Bones - Life is short, though I keep this from my children. - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.
‘Good Bones‘ by Maggie Smith explores the idea that the world is not necessarily a morally good place. She focuses on the idea that the world is ‘fifty percent terrible’, that being a ‘conservative estimate’.
