For Dear Life with Maggie Smith

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Maggie Smith
Apr 30, 2024
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Where a lot of poems begin, weather permitting: my front porch.

Hi, Friend.

It’s the last day of National Poetry Month, and just this week a new poem arrived. I was a little startled! I’ve been working on essays, so maybe the poems have been hesitant to arrive, knowing I’m preoccupied. Luckily, when a piece of writing decides the time is right to make itself known, it speaks above the other chatter. I heard this one loud and clear, and grabbed my pen.

As a special thank-you to supporting subscribers, who’ve been making my writing here and elsewhere possible, I’m sharing this new, unpublished poem.

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