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Glimpse of solace: Tooting one’s horn

04/10/2018 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Glimpse of solace: Tooting one’s horn

Don't forget Laura Rodley has two new books of poetry. If you are in Turner Falls, MA, Laura is having a double-duty reading there on April 15 at the Gill Montague Senior Center at 1:oo pm. Also, toot-toot, if you're from around here, I'll be reading tonight at seven at Evanston Art Center with Jorge Sanchez as part of the SalonSeries.  I am excited because I have not read in a while -- toot-toot, I'll be like the Little Engine That Could.  Thanks again to Beth … [Read more...]

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Hunger by Laura Rodley

11/01/2016 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Hunger by Laura Rodley

Hunger Does the maple leaf hunger for the sun, shaking hands with its light, the light that turns the maples’ leaves to rusty orange, heavy with color, so heavy they drop? Does the cardinal hunger for its mate, how they are never more than twenty feet away from each other, the wind of their flight, attaining bird seeds or shelter, so close they thrive? Do the deer hunger for acorns, remembering the buttery taste of those already eaten, or do they step … [Read more...]

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Guest post: Laura Rodley “Luna”

07/18/2016 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Guest post: Laura Rodley “Luna”

Luna Sure sign of summer, the pale translucence of the luna’s green wings, the green of emerging blades of grass, or new rose leaves. How such delicacy battles her way through thunderstorms, clouds, the dust of a dry summer, how her path is unerring; she returns every time, not herself, but a replica, someone born from her eggs. In April, too early for lunas, one appeared anyway, flapping at the back porch window Let me in. Walking outside, I bathed in her … [Read more...]

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