Lone Night
I like the way the stars seem to come out one at a time. Then all at once. The feeling of being outside looking in. Geese in flight,...
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Elizabeth McLaughlin
May 1, 20221 min
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...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Dec 15, 20211 min
What the Wind Brings
Nothing moves, not yet. The gusting wind we’ve all been warned of has not shown its face. The news and the sky, the spaces between...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Sep 26, 20191 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, 20191 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 12, 20191 min
Scavenger, songbird.
What does it mean to move; to be moved? Where do we come from? But where does that come from? To be made up of atoms...beams of light and...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Jul 3, 20191 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, 20191 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, 20191 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, 20191 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, 20191 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, 20191 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, 20191 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, 20191 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, 20191 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...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Jan 21, 20191 min
Beginnings
First nightfall draws first blood. A New Year is nothing new to her, but the poetry in this is too obvious to pass by. So she draws this...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Jan 21, 20191 min
Moonset
Just there. That great wide moon sliding through the dusty pink sky toward the horizon Toward the foothills. And my heart skips a beat. 6...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Jan 21, 20191 min
Waning Brightly
She wakes me out of a heavy sleep, the earliest darkest hours of the morning. Placing her head on the pillow beside me, though she does...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Dec 25, 20182 min
Twenty-nine and a half days
Every 29 and a half days, marking the start of the lunar cycle. We are plunged into darkness, and in the darkness, things begin to line...
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Nov 14, 20181 min
Mama Bear
My mother worries. She can’t help but want to pull us back into the nest. But we aren’t baby birds. We are shape shifters born to...
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