Poetry
Still Moving: An Interview with Maggie Smith
Right now, on some corner of social media, someone is sharing Maggie Smith’s
“Good Bones.” [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones] A
wildfire in 17 lines, it was named “the official
Home
Today I want to curl up inside
one of these Cornell boxes
to be the thing with feathers
or the facsimile of something other
that at least
even in paper, decoupage
could conjure
Wrist
I watch the first time he opens the door on his own.
I watch the first time he opens the door easy.
I’ve been waiting for Elvis to go fuzzy,
it’s