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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 dried corn fields melting

Mounds of snow evaporating

Torrential downpours

How I have longed

For that hollow 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