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tracks.

Posted on November 17, 2020 by meaghancc

The backyard of my childhood home. Oak trees and Bradford pears, sturdy maples. The weeping cherry tree where the morning dove nested this spring in a perfect cradle. Singing and cooing low into the afternoon. Her beady black eyes staring … Continue reading →

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has this pandemic broken my heart

Posted on November 10, 2020 by meaghancc

How can a heart break. A muscle, an organ, a lifegiver, a lifetaker. This chamber contracts and that chamber expands. This valve flaps and then that valve flaps. The whirl of the oxygenated blood, rolling like a rich iron river, … Continue reading →

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i have lost my faith

Posted on November 10, 2020 by meaghancc

There’s a fight brewing in my home, in myself. What’s the safest thing to do to be with my family as we turn to the first holiday without my dad, in a global pandemic? Fly, drive, crawl, or stutter and … Continue reading →

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what is this season.

Posted on October 27, 2020 by meaghancc

What is this season. Is it the fire and smoke season. Or that time of turning, reminiscent of my childhood with crimson leaves and pomegranates. Is it Friday night football games and homecomings. Or an early surprise snowfall just to … Continue reading →

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what is perfect?

Posted on October 27, 2020 by meaghancc

It is round or a square with four sharp 90-degree edges. It is smooth, like the skin on your forearm or the downy of anything new. Or rough as a million-year old pebble strewn from some volcanic eruption. Perfect is … Continue reading →

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the thing that’s beautiful right now.

Posted on September 28, 2020 by meaghancc

The thing that’s beautiful right now is that I can feel my heartbeat through the vein in my temple that’s giving me this headache. Maybe too much light or too much concentration on the sad and beautiful blue and black … Continue reading →

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salt

Posted on September 28, 2020 by meaghancc

If the salt of the ocean is the salt of my tears, do I cry a whole ocean? Do I replenish it or does it replenish me? Are we one in the same? It is known that the concentration of … Continue reading →

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my alphabet

Posted on September 22, 2020 by meaghancc

Z, yes, I’ll start with z because I’m left handed and this left to right, top to bottom world leaves smudges on my hands, papers, clothing. Z is for zebrafish. Those little prisoners wearing their stripes in my childhood aquarium. … Continue reading →

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what matters now

Posted on September 15, 2020 by meaghancc

The low pressure system off the west coast The denseness of the Arctic’s peatland, trapping generations of exhale The prayer for a marriage between two hydrogen and one oxygen The direction of the wind, not four but 360 The birds … Continue reading →

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you were only waiting

Posted on September 15, 2020 by meaghancc

It was my dad’s birthday yesterday. He would have been 72. In between my steady stream of work, I kept a Van Morrison soundtrack on softly in the background. I was Dad’s brown-eyed girl. One of the last times Dad … Continue reading →

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