Finding Love in the End Times

A “Golden” Poem

Maggie Bowyer

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Photo by Mounzer Awad on Unsplash

I have been sharing a lot of sad poems, and a lot about loss. But the past few years have not been solely about loss.

It reminds me of the poem “We Lived Happily During the War” by Ilya Kaminsky. As my body was falling apart, my friendships, my work, my life structure, the country was falling apart. Between Covid and corruption, the problems of our country were…

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Maggie Bowyer

Freelance writer. UNGODLY, WHEN I BLEED: POEMS ABOUT ENDOMETRIOSIS and more