Ohio Cento & How To Preserve a Fistful of the Neighbor’s Tulips
By Maggie Smith
“Your body, it is yours to leave behind, // and afterward, the moon stops looking like a moon, / unpolished for months, tarnished as flatware.”
Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith is the author of Lamp of the Body, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Good Bones, the title poem from which was called the “Official Poem of 2016” by Public Radio International and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, The Believer, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Best American Poetry, and on the CBS primetime drama Madam Secretary. Find her at www.maggiesmithpoet.com.