Nights Like this One
We might, on some ordinary day…take for granted how beholden we are to the seasons and the countenance of each day and night. But you can...
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Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Dec 14, 2021
- 1 min
Winter Hunger
I have never ached for snow before, but I can feel the longing grow inside my chest. This year I crave the cold and the quiet. The razor...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Mar 20, 2021
- 1 min
Springtime
In the carnage of spring some branches bow and others blossom. In the rivers of melting ice, some float while others drown. Bird song and...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Dec 31, 2020
- 2 min
This New Year
Tonight I will fill my glass with clean water, And drink to health of body and clarity of mind. I will light a candle and remember how...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Oct 13, 2020
- 1 min
Ghost Stories
If I wasn’t who I am today, I know who I would be. Do we all live life like a house full of ghosts? Late nights walking through the dark....
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Sep 7, 2020
- 1 min
Cameron Peak Fire
It is barely September and we are cast into shadows in the middle of the day. For months people have joked; “What is next? What could be...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Apr 23, 2020
- 1 min
Shrouded
I sometimes wear my collective shame like a funeral shroud. Pulling it out all threadbare and putrid to rest around my shoulders....
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Apr 22, 2020
- 1 min
April
Before rising I heard the eastward morning sun. Melting the last deep April snow into rivers. What a bit of light can do to make the...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Nov 19, 2019
- 1 min
Out to Sea
Validation doesn’t matter on a sinking ship. The water takes beauty the same way it takes everything else. Straight down. I find it...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Sep 26, 2019
- 1 min
No
What do you want when you reach the end of wanting? Something warm and soft to match your breath to? Not sharp edges and restless sleep....
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Sep 24, 2019
- 1 min
Bellows from below
That my racing mind could keep the pace of the electricity moving in my veins. Gathering moments whole like threads to be woven into each...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Jul 3, 2019
- 1 min
Half and Half
Equal parts hopeless romance and cynical disdain. Equal parts wanting to wrap myself around you, and to stay this far away. Equal parts...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Apr 18, 2019
- 1 min
Two steps forward
The very beginning, barely beginning... rocking toward the source. One foot on either side of the precipice. Invisible thresholds. We are...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Mar 18, 2019
- 1 min
Ancestral Table
The cutlery that lives under the bed in the scarred wooden box with one broken hinge. Worn red velvet inside of its case, is on this...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Mar 14, 2019
- 1 min
What are you trying to say?
Why is it, do you think...that we don’t know how to say what we mean? I don’t care about climate change. Climates change. But I do care...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Mar 14, 2019
- 1 min
Touching Down
Making landfall. That first contact. The discovery of a new world. Our first steps onto wild earth. You breathe me in like the first...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Mar 3, 2019
- 1 min
Time Capsule
Traveling forward and back. A year ago to the day. The ice is singing. Or crying. Or just lamenting in clear tones to no one in...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Feb 5, 2019
- 1 min
Restless
I’ve been having nightmares, the kind that shake you awake soaked in sweat. The kind that make you forget where you are, but not what you...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Feb 3, 2019
- 1 min
Witness
The first time you called while I was in the room, I felt her race past me to get to you. And I won’t forget. Cradled in her daughter's...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
- Feb 3, 2019
- 1 min
Fortunes
Lined now, still the envy of the crows and the mockingbirds. Weighed down by stones wound tightly in gold and silver. Tapping the hard...
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