No card catalogue or late fees for this amicable neighborhood hang, a community gem with shhh ripped from its vocabulary; opinions scribbled inside the back cover appreciated by the indecisive erased by the opposition, like the first Lovely Bones assessment, Disturbing it screamed. Some viewed it a fair judgment considering the painful subject, but the second reader who was not ninety years old or misguided by the word Lovely afforded Alice Sebold a fighting chance and invited once forbidden conversation about prickly topics− a welcomed departure from nice weather we’re having.
Elaine Sorrentino
Elaine Sorrentino, Communications Director at South Shore Conservatory, Hingham, MA, has been published in Minerva Rising, Willawaw Journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Ekphrastic Review, Writing in a Women’s Voice, Global Poemic, ONE ART: a journal of poetry, Haiku Universe, and has won the monthly poetry challenge at wildamorris.blogspot.com
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