{"id":4515,"date":"2013-02-07T20:13:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2013-02-08T21:12:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T21:12:05","slug":"laura-rodley-montague-city-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2013\/02\/laura-rodley-montague-city-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Rodley, Montague City Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNot even the tiniest incident of beauty slips past Laura Rodley’s watchful eye. . . . \u201d This is a quote from Boston Literary Magazine Chapbook Review<\/em> about Laura\u2019s collection of poetry, Your Left Wheel is Coming Loose<\/em>. \u00a0I heartily concur. I first became familiar with Laura\u2019s work when we both had work in Kiss Me Goodnight<\/em>.\u00a0 Her poem \u201cAddicted\u201d is in Solace in So Many Words<\/em><\/strong> and she has let me publish “If I Had a Horse”on this website.<\/a> Last week I put out a call for submissions and Laura sent me three. \u00a0I am publishing this one today as it seems apt, weatherwise.<\/p>\n

Montague City Road<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tonight black river water shook hands<\/p>\n

with warm January clouds<\/p>\n

sending mists across roads<\/p>\n

blinding as snow blizzard<\/p>\n

visibility less than zero<\/p>\n

light bouncing off light.<\/p>\n

I passed by number 300,<\/p>\n

went eight houses beyond<\/p>\n

to the end of the road, unable<\/p>\n

to see any mailboxes,<\/p>\n

and then the angel<\/p>\n

on the seventh step<\/p>\n

cleared the path, come home now, at once<\/p>\n

so I drove behind cars<\/p>\n

blinking red lights<\/p>\n

at twenty miles an hour<\/p>\n

in a fifty-five miles per hour zone<\/p>\n

on Route 2, but I made<\/p>\n

it home and the angel<\/p>\n

reached out her wings for me<\/p>\n

unable to leave the seventh step<\/p>\n

her wing tips soothing my eyes,<\/p>\n

the frost on my hair.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Laura Rodley\u00a0 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author’s note: <\/strong>The Angel on the Seventh Step is taken from Angela’s Ashes<\/em> by Frank McCourt.<\/p>\n

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In addition to Your Front Wheel is Coming Loose<\/em><\/strong>, another chapbook Rappelling Blue Light<\/em><\/strong> has been published too. Both are from Finishing Line Press.<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Laura is also the recipient of a Pushcart Prize<\/strong> for her \u00a0poem “Resurrection” which appeared on The New Verse News <\/a><\/strong><\/em>and the poem is published in The Pushcart Prlze XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses. <\/em>Her poetry has appeared in the anthologies Crossing Paths, 911 Peace Project, Anthology of New England Writers<\/em>, and The Blueline Anthology<\/em> and in the journals such as\u00a0Connecticut River Review<\/em>, Earth\u2019s Daughters,<\/em> Massachusetts Review, Sanctuary, The National Audubon Magazine, Boston Literary Magazine<\/em>, Quick Fiction,<\/em> Sahara,<\/em> Sanctuary,<\/em> The Raintown Review<\/em>, Tiger\u2019s Eye<\/em> and Way Station Magazine<\/em>. Her work has been read on WHMP, KVMR, 89.5 FM radio in Nevada City, California, and NPR-affiliated station WAMC in Albany. She is a freelance writer and photographer from Shelburne Falls, MA .<\/p>\n

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