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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

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
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