Word Garden Word List--Light, Coming Back

 Hello my hungry hearts, and welcome to this week's Word List poetry prompt! If you're a reader, then you know that every once in a while, you'll come across a book that tells your story, or tells your possibilities, or simply speaks to your heart in a way that is unique and profound. 

For me, one of those books is a novel by the late Ann Wadsworth, entitled Light, Coming Back. Her debut novel (and there isn't much else by her that I could find), it was short-listed for the Ferro-Grumley Prize, The Lambda Literary Award For Lesbian Fiction, and the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award. Moreover, it was a Book of the Month Club selection back when BOMC was more serious than its reanimated version is today. That's where I found it. I read it in 2007 and it has kept its special place in my heart ever since. (And yes, I do have one!)

Elizabeth Stark, author of Shy Girl, had this to say about it: "Light, Coming Back is an exquisitely honest love story that reveals the delicate and steely threads that bind us to those few we connect with deeply. Unafraid of complexity and full of vitality, this is a tale that should have been told before now; Mrs. Dalloway finds her passionate young Sally not in her long ago past but in today's flower shop. This smart and beautifully written novel will stay with you a long time; indeed, it will teach you how to live." 

The love story of Mercedes and Lennie is one I am eager to read again now. It will make you believe that, yes, light can come back. 

What we do here is to use at least 3 of the 20 words provided in a new, original poem of our own. Then simply link up, visit others, and let the light in. This prompt remains active through next Saturday. 

And now, your List:

bon mots

cello

comic

distracted

drama

fooled

gallows

inches

lamps

light

miracles

missed

packages

pleasure

roosters

saga

severe

shed

soften

together