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Table Elegy

I don’t know if what I feel about you is grief or not. That is the sentence that was repeating in my mind for awhile as I worked to settle my thoughts on objects that relate to you. I had an idea for a table elegy the other week. I should have written it at … Continue reading Table Elegy →

Laura Bellows death, Story Leave a comment February 28, 2023 3 Minutes

Blood Elegy

January Elegy #5 Preface I have not written much since he died.  I should have forced my way through it, even if it sounded mechanical to me. Because I have now passed the rawest months I can’t recreate. Grief is, for me, I think, all about tiny events. And even Bruce’s dying was a series … Continue reading Blood Elegy →

Laura Bellows death, Story Leave a comment January 27, 2023January 31, 2023 6 Minutes

Salt Elegy

January Elegy #4 I brought back a gift for you from Bali. Salt from the north coast and your choice of two, small, white plates from a local pottery. One of the plates must have been made by pouring slip into a mold that gave it the form of a plate woven from some part … Continue reading Salt Elegy →

Laura Bellows death, love Leave a comment January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 3 Minutes

Horizon Line

January Elegy #3 Your glasses are folded upside down on the outlet box above the counter in the kitchen. You got them not long before you died. Your eyes were changing from the radiation. The lenses are smeared with blood I will never wash away, like the blood in between the floorboards of the kitchen; … Continue reading Horizon Line →

Laura Bellows death, love, photography Leave a comment January 21, 2023January 21, 2023 4 Minutes

Ghost

January Elegy #2 When I wrote January Elegy yesterday, I imagined that I could write an elegy once a month for a year, which means I will already have missed 6. I could reconstruct them. But those earlier months had a rawness to them I can’t reproduce. The pain is not the same. My thoughts … Continue reading Ghost →

Laura Bellows death Leave a comment January 21, 2023January 24, 2023 1 Minute

January Elegy #1

I wish I had thought of it before now – a year of elegies, one for every month since you died until we get to July.  Perhaps July gets 2? But I didn’t think of it until just now. And I hadn’t thought about elegies at all until Lana sent one about Bluebells and you … Continue reading January Elegy #1 →

Laura Bellows creative writing, death, photography Leave a comment January 21, 2023 2 Minutes

Terrains of the Body – #22

August 14 1. What is it that I was thinking just now? Was it something about my village and the house where I used to live when I lived there? I was just there again after so many years. Things had changed. I didn't want them to have changed. It all looked dusty to me, … Continue reading Terrains of the Body – #22 →

Laura Bellows Art, body, death, Story, Writing Leave a comment August 14, 2018May 26, 2020 3 Minutes
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