When poet Maggie Smith’s Good Bones went viral, it helped to expose a faultline at the centre of her marriage. What happened when the true dynamic of her relationship was revealed?
o, how would you describe your marriage? What happened?” Every time someone asks about my marriage, or about my divorce, I pause for a moment. Inside that imperceptible pause, I’m thinking about the cost of answering fully. I’m weighing it against the cost of silence.
Meanwhile, I was parenting two children, ages three and seven. I was their mom most of all – that was how I was known to people in my life, and that was fine with me. Even after the poem went viral, I was still hidden, cleverly disguised as one of the least visible creatures on Earth: a middle-aged mother.
After a trip, there was no how was it, glad it went well. I didn’t feel missed as a person, I felt missed as staff
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