BOOK REVIEWS David Rigsbee reviews All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems by Linda Gregg
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C. Wade Bentley teaches writing at Salt Lake Community College and Weber State University. His poems have recently appeared in Green Mountains Review, Pebble Lake Review, Cimarron Review, Jabberwock Review, Best New Poets 2007, and Connecticut Review.
First Day of Spring
Ice pellets
scatter-shot
from Lake Michigan
goose- and gull-
shit on the walk
I can't hear the music
for the wind
but see the Ferris wheel
winding
out on the Pier
imagine
the first kid of the season
tossing in his seat
at the top
laughing
screaming
C. Wade Bentley teaches writing at Salt Lake Community College and Weber State University. His poems have recently appeared in Green Mountains Review, Pebble Lake Review, Cimarron Review, Jabberwock Review, Best New Poets 2007, and Connecticut Review.