Laura Bentley

Blue Sunday

12/23/2018

A lonesome dog howled
before daybreak,

and it was Sunday.
Sermons

and fried chicken,
back seat car rides

to visit
dying relatives,

lasting a summer’s worth
of Saturdays.

What stagnated
the Sabbath,

making each tick
of the mantle clock

dull the seconds
while you chanted

the names of passing cars
hoping one might

pull to the side
of the road?

Mercury,
Cadillac,

Chevy,
Ford.

Dodge.

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Laura Treacy Bentley

Laura Treacy Bentley is a novelist and poet from Huntington, West Virginia. She is the author of a new chapbook/artbook, Looking for Ireland: An Irish Appalachian Pilgrimage (2017), a psychological thriller set in Ireland, The Silver Tattoo (2013), a short story prequel, Night Terrors (2015), and a poetry collection, Lake Effect (2006). Laura has been widely published in the United States and Ireland. She was featured on A Prairie Home Companion, Poetry Daily, O Magazine, read her poetry with Ray Bradbury in 2003, and signed her books with Nora Roberts in 2017. lauratreacybentley.com