Smith, Maggie, 1977- author.
©2017
99 pages ; 23 cm
Weep up — First fall — Marked — Sky — This town — Twentieth century — The hawk — London plane — Accidental pastoral — Museum — The story of the mountain — Orientation — You could never take a car to Greenland, — At your age I wore a darkness — Past — Heart — Stitches — The crows — Let’s not begin — Home-free — Deer field — Nest — Size equals distance — Harrowing — Lullaby — Where honey comes from — Rough air — Leaves — The hunters — Parachute — If anyone can survive, — Storybook — Stonefish — Illustration — Invincible — Your tongue — Splinter — The mother — What I carried — Good bones — Transparent — Clock — Future — Cloud study — The hawk-kite — Reading the train book, I think of Lisa — Panel van — Poem with a line from Bluets — Dear — Mountain child — Love poem — Rain, New Year’s Eve — Acknowledgments.
“Poems written out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by the poet watching her own children trying to read the world like a book they’ve just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot.”– Provided by publisher.
