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Don’t Look

A memoir by Patricia McLaughlin

Don’t Look is a mother’s attempt to survive the death of her son through the recollection of her life experience. McLaughlin brings her mother’s departed spirit along, to help balance the heartache that is mental illness with the wisdom that is faith and love. Can anyone find comfort and acceptance through the lens of the past? Only if you have the courage to look. Printed by Barnes & Noble Press. ISBN# 979-8-881-18963-1

A Patch For The Ark

A Blog by Patricia McLaughlin

A Patch For The Ark contains diary entries, poems, short stories and other creative writing projects. The title is based on my poem, ‘Spirit’.

Spirit

The winds of March are winding

A relentless path

Between skyscrapers

Blowing across the stubble

Of fallow cornfields

Melting mounds of snow

Evaporating torrential downpours

How I have longed for that wordless

Mouth to breath life into

The depth of my soul

Shaping a patch

For the ark to finally

Come to rest

Opening wide

Its cedar doors

Carrying away the stench

Of enclosed flesh

Revealing the face of God

Bright and warm

As the sun

I will bathe myself in that

Steady breeze propelled

Along laughing

As my scarf unwinds from my neck

And takes flight

Dancing in an undulating grace

All its own