by Laura Rodley
With
long tanned legs and shorts lined with pockets
she
walks beach, spying beach glass, valued lockets
of
the heart of the ocean, how it rubs
away
time smoothing rocks to sandy nubs,
pockets
growing heavy, filled with treasure.
Quiet
amongst waves, time without measure
except
the clock that the glass holds up high
how
its sides are smooth, edge grooved, time passed by.
Having
reached the edge of the point, surprised,
She
turns around towards home noon surmised
by
height of sun overhead. Time to gather
lunch
items, tuna or grilled cheese, rather
easy
to fix, keep the mood of time extended,
all
sorrows laid aside, all hearts mended.
Laura Rodley’s New Verse News poem “Resurrection” has won a Pushcart Prize and will appear later this year in The Pushcart Prlze XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses (2013 edition). She was nominated twice before for the Prize as well as for Best of the Net. Her chapbook Rappelling Blue Light, a Mass Book Award nominee, won honorable mention for the New England Poetry Society Jean Pedrick Award. Her second chapbook Your Left Front Wheel is Coming Loose
was also nominated for a Mass Book Award and a L.L.Winship/Penn New
England Award. Both were published by Finishing Line Press. Co-curator
of the Collected Poets Series, she teaches creative writing and works as
contributing writer and photographer for the Daily Hampshire Gazette. She edited As You Write It, A Franklin County Anthology, Volume I and Volume II.
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