Skip to content
Back to issue
From: Vol.12 N.01 – The Braided Gift

Staurolite Crux

by L. Noelle McLaughlin

We dove under 
Blue Ridge Mountains
Far below the
Mossy foothills
Seven miles down

We found small stone crosses
Formed from fairy tears

In my left hand
When I walk to
Town without you
I clutch one so
If I have to 
I can disappear.

Published: November 2025
L. Noelle McLaughlin

is a ghostwriter and fiction editor originally from the Bronx. She was the Hortus Arboretum and Botanical Gardens resident writer for 2020, and a finalist for a grant from The Speculative Literature Foundation. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in Carte Blanche, Alchemy Magazine, Sein und Werden, Gaia Literature, Hawaii Pacific Review, Wild Roof Journal, GAMBA zine, Thrice Fiction, The Screech Owl, Unlikely Stories, Advaitam Speaks Literary, Clockwise Cat, Sammy and Beckett, Lime Hawk Literary Arts Collective, Danse Macabre, The Sunlight Press, nth Position, We Did It Boys, The Stone Canoe Journal, Not Ghosts but Spirits, an anthology from Querencia Press, and Love in the Original Language, an anthology from Moonstone Press. lnoellemclaughlin.com @lvxanimism @lnoellemcl

An Australian and international
journal of ecopoetry and ecopoetics.

Plumwood Mountain Journal is created on the unceded lands of the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and to elders past, present and future. We also acknowledge all traditional custodians of the lands this journal reaches.

© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Website by Heads Under™