Maine Cottage
By Audie Cockings April 6th, 2016, 15:11 EDT
Ashen granite underfoot
gelid tide at my ankle
birch in the wind
a rocky shoreline.
Loons wade alongside children
minnows to find
berries to eat
a weightless afternoon.
Weathered gray shingles, mossy rooftop
screened in porch
bright heavens, salt marsh
in gloaming reflection.
Early morning, crisp dawn
cots damp with dew
young ones stir
as lupines await the sun.
About the Author
Audie Cockings
Audie Cockings is a happy wife and mom to four kiddos living on the Fresh Coast in Northern Michigan. When she's not concocting fictitious narratives of strong but thoroughly flawed women for Liberty Island, she is slinging paint or crafting meals for six from local forest flora and fauna (read: Chukkar with morels). Audie works as an eldercare consultant by day and an associate editor for Liberty Island in the wee hours. She has been published in PJ Media, Liberty Island, and in two Midwest health care journals.
New to the editing staff at Liberty Island, Audie will be focused on developing authors and novels for readers with indoor plumbing. Period works (think 80's and 90's), dry humor, historical fiction, and stories of devout but dysfunctional families and friendships are encouraged for submission. Positive outcomes and finding blessings in disasters are of particular interest, as are stories of women and the men who make them nuts.
Audie plans to spend her retirement catching up on lost sleep.
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