In the Store

On Sunday evening, November 18, Candice Stover read to a packed crowd at Port In A Storm Bookstore from her new book, Poems from the Pond, her tribute to MDI’s Somes Pond.

 Most of us who live in Somesville acknowledge Somes Pond, glancing at it when we pass by going about our everyday rounds, sometimes feasting on it when we see it in the height of a season, warm or frozen. But most of us don’t write a book about it. Candice Stover has. She says, “Our pond holds a lot of stories. And, like any good storyteller, the pond lives somewhere between stillness and the world of particulars.”

 Poetry can do wonderful things to moments of inspiration. There are many places on this island where you can bump into nature’s beauty, even its soul, and glimpse its spirit, brooding or shining. But those moments are easily lost. What the poet attempts – and what Candice has done – is to capture that haunting loveliness in words. Time vanishes, and a moment is gone as quickly as a cloud flying by the sun. But Candice, in these poems,  catches beauty and holds it fast.