Poetry reading/book signing at Tamarack
To all of us concerned with inner weather, Laura Treacy Bentley’s first collection, Lake Effect: Poems, seems just right. She’s going to share some poems and sign the book at Tamarack, located off I-77 in Beckley, W.Va., Saturday, July 21, 2007, at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Bentley is a teacher and a widely published poet. Born in Maryland, Bentley has lived most of her life in Huntington, W.Va.
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“Everywhere I look these days no poetry is being written. There is a lot of pretend poetry, but nothing really this fine. With this book it makes it very easy for me to say: Laura Bentley, I dub thee poet supreme.” – Ray Bradbury
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BEYOND THE BREAKERS
my father is waving
beckoning me
to come
an ocean divides us
him on one side
me on the other
when this ocean was new
we drove all night
and slept on the sand
its sound not a shell anymore
waking in the ocean night
I steal to the water’s edge
the breakers beyond
me on one side
him on the other
the fear rising in mother’s voice
his white face bobs above silver waves
laughing and calling
come on in
come on in
– Laura Treacy Bentley
