A showcase of work by elizabeth murray; short stories, articles, haiku, flash fiction, poetry, dialogue, and experiments. Like what you see? Contact me. I could be writing for you.
Magnitude
II
In a lesson on trying to make the abstract more concrete,
one of my students, a Guyanese boy, late teens,
shares a draft in which he’s counting
the breaths of his sleeping girlfriend.
He’s met her father, shook his hand –
weeks later, the girl explains
that her Akan blood arrows back up to royalty,
that the boy is the son of […]
Magnitude*
I
There are a million grains in a 20 kilogram sack of rice.
Give or take. It’s a hard enough number to imagine,
the kind that slips through the mind’s fingers, like digging
your hands in that same sack, trying to feel
for individuals; the kind of counting that surpasses
fingers, bigger than the mind’s computational eye,
like the full, unending […]