Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith
Author:Maggie Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers
Published: 2021-07-27T00:00:00+00:00
At the End of My Marriage, I Think of Something My Daughter Said About Trees
When a tree is cut down, the skyâs like
finally, and rushes in.
Even when you trim a tree,
the sky fills in before the branch
hits the ground. It colors the space blue
because now it can.
Not everything is a poem
or has a poem inside it, but god help me
if I canât find one when I empty
my sonâs pockets before I do
the wash: one acorn, two rocks
(one smooth and gray, one rough
and glittering, flecked pink),
a chunk of mulch, a wilted
dandelion. The poem is there,
I think, pressing itself against
the grit or splinter or bitter
yellow, but I question its mother-
softness, suspicious of flowers
and laundry. I swear Iâve seen
poems riding my boyâs back
as he runs around our weed patch
of a lawn, letting crabgrass
saw his ankles because killing it
would mean killing the wild
violets, his sisterâs namesakes.
I donât dare look for poems
in spring even if all the purple
and green are on clearance then.
Two springs ago, my son
was so ill, he smelled bad-sweet,
and one morning he woke
shitting blood, saying my name,
my name, my name. No poem
kept his body from bruising
purple that would fade to green,
his skin a field of flowersâ
no, not this poem and not
a poem at all. But he lived.
Itâs spring again and he lives.
Itâs spring again and his pockets
are full of petals and stones.
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