Goldenrod: Poems

"During a time when so much felt out of our control – not the least because of the pandemic – Maggie Smith swooped in with her poems to help us make sense of the world. Sure, we all want to know “what is the point?” And Smith, with quintessential charm, responds: “We say in the grand scheme of things / as if there were one. We say that’s not how / the world works, as if the world works.” Instead of trying to figure out “how the world works” Smith’s poems ask that we turn to smaller objects. The stone, the seashell, the goldenrod – what can they tell us? Maybe there are no answers. Just lessons to be learned and unlearned; our vision continually altered by the small details around us."