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The Whole Story is an attempt to capture trauma and the changes in our thought patterns as a result. After years of complex trauma one can feel like they are drowning in unrelenting crises. This can lead to an extremely abusive relationship. The Whole Story explores how trauma can intrude on our lives when we are finally safe and happy.
Maggie Bowyer
Maggie Bowyer (they/he) is a poet, cat parent, and the author of various poetry collections including Allergies (2023) and When I Bleed (2021). They are a co-host of the podcast Baked and Bookish. They have been featured in The Abbey Review, Chapter House Journal, The Elevation Review, The South Dakota Review, Wishbone Words, and more. They were the Editor-in-Chief of The Lariat Newspaper, a quarter-finalist in Brave New Voices 2016, and a Marilyn Miller Poet Laureate. You can find their work on Instagram and TikTok @maggie.writes.
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The Whole Story - Maggie Bowyer
The Whole Story
The Whole Story
Maggie Bowyer
publisher logoMargaret Bowyer
Copyright © 2020, The Whole Story by Maggie Bowyer
All rights reserved.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic methods without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the author at the address below.
Maggie Bowyer
Greensboro, North Carolina
www.maggiebowyer.com
ISBN: 978-0-578-81193-2
LCCN: 2020923545
Printed in the United States of America
First Printing Edition, 2020.
Thank You
This is for those who lifted me
Out of a pit of trauma;
This is for those who stood by me
When my life was a sea
Of unrelenting crisis’.
This body of work
Is for the me that I saved,
To remember the me
That I couldn’t;
This is for me to remember
How I arrived here -
Wise Minded and present;
This is my story
Of survival
Turned to Whole existence.
The Fact Check
Who said a poem
Had to be anything more
Than honesty?
My values align
More than ever
On these pages.
Seeking Maternal Figure
What kind of mother
Cannot protect her child?
I know the fault wasn’t mine
But dammit some days
I cannot find the light;
The ones in your eyes
Used to shine so bright.
There is truly no fault,
Yet some days the sun
Is burning me to a crisp
And I remember you left your son,
And I am here without you.
I remember our fight
The eve before that morning
When you were gone without warning.
I cannot blame you
Because you’ve slipped
So far from my fingertips.
What kind of child
Can’t protect their mother?
I’m writing a thousand
Different poems here,
Yet none of them feel right.
I’m at a loss for words,
Searching for explanation
Through lyrical exploration;
When there is no reason
There are no metaphors.
When there is every reason
These words crash over
And threaten to destroy me.
I cannot find the stars
So far beneath these waves
Of insecurity and mistrust;
Their light has seemed to vanish.
What Would Your Ideal Day Look Like?
I sat for fifteen minutes
Trying to answer the first question
In none other than my own journal.
Questions to Know Thyself
Didn’t sound too promising anyway.
And so I put my journal away
And turned the TV back on.
Without the background noise
I’m able to hear my own thoughts,
And that’s one way
I don’t want to get to know myself.
Adoring Drags
They say I move on too easily,
But falling in love
Is the same as breathing for me.
Puffing through all of the smoke,
Coughing