Entries By Ann
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airstream
i could feel the air all over my face, stroking my shoulders and moving my hair. i couldn’t see anything but i kept on moving, i needed to go to where they had told me they hid you. it was a dark night, that’s all i knew. it was so hot i could feel it under my shoe’s sole. i had no hope, but i needed to do something.
Posted By ann On 05.17.2013 @ 11:42 pm
electrocute
There is a stab from the corner of my mind. A lightning bolt. Almost. Mostly all I can thing about is the trajectory of my thoughts and the way they produce sounds and colors that have nothing to do with boats. But I still feel like I’m sailing or sinking. Those are my modes. Sailing and sinking.
Shocking.
Posted By Ann On 04.26.2013 @ 10:37 pm
bowling
We rolled down the hill, our laughter taking over for the cheesy sound effects I’d first attempted.
Posted By Ann On 04.25.2013 @ 7:03 pm
planter
In the soil, the brownies waited. Striped leaves of what the Talls called “snake plant” towered over them. Padded footsteps grew louder with each achingly slow draw of breath.
Posted By Ann On 04.24.2013 @ 9:23 pm
checkmate
The game had lasted for hours. But it was nothing compared to the game they’d been playing for years. She held the Queen above the checkered board, hesitating for no other reason than to try her husband’s patience. He leaned on his hand, pretending to be more concerned with the nighttime that showed nothing but shadows out their living room windows.
Posted By Ann On 04.23.2013 @ 8:10 pm
smudge
he smudged me, pulled me up to his figure, looked into my eyes and said.. YOU!
Posted By Ann On 04.03.2013 @ 8:21 am
plague
horrible, frightening, sad, uncontrollable. Only the very strong survive.
Posted By Ann On 03.31.2013 @ 12:19 pm
listening
No one listens anymore. I have not met a good listener in a long time. Everyone is so into their own thoughts and their own ideas to care about others.
Posted By Ann On 03.24.2013 @ 8:42 pm
startled
I couldn’t understand why I said it. The worst things is when I don’t even want to say something and it pops out and I’m just as surprised as you are. It’s like when you bite into something that you expect to be chocolate but turns out to be spinach and you don’t know why you were expecting chocolate or why not to expect spinach but you’re startled by the taste. That’s how it is with most of what I say.
Posted By Ann On 02.25.2013 @ 7:13 pm
fatigue
Fatigue didn’t have the same meaning before the baby was born. Before I’d experienced the exhaustion that takes you by surprise in the middle of a feeding. Before I knew what it felt like to curl up in a ball by the bassinet, crying out, “I just want to sleep”, and wondering if I had enough energy to pick up the baby.
Posted By Ann On 02.16.2013 @ 8:38 pm
flat
iowa is not flat. many people think that it is so they sign up for Ragbrai – a ride across Iowa and they learn the meaning of hilly. flat is often thought to be a negative quality but it’s not.
Posted By ann On 02.14.2013 @ 10:08 am
systems
You have all these rules. That don’t really make sense to anyone but you. They just are. Like the colors and the numbers and the times you won’t say what you mean because you don’t want to sound like somebody you don’t know. You have your system and I love you But honestly, I’m getting tired of playing by your rules. When you won’t even listen to mine.
Posted By Ann On 02.01.2013 @ 10:49 pm
visit
They were coming. Family. Opponents, Masters. He didn’t know how to prepare for the emotional onslaught he knew he’d experience on their arrival. All he could do was block the fear, the throttling feeling that they would realize he was not good enough to host them.
Posted By Ann On 01.22.2013 @ 7:35 am
sate
feel full and fulfilled. no more hunger or thirst. to be contented. rounded and complete. satisfied and without want. youthful, hopeful comforted. pleased happy. to sated and rotund well rounded and fufilled with feeling of restfulness
Posted By Ann On 12.19.2012 @ 4:48 pm
both
and at the end of the night, they left. like two birds in the night. laughing and dreaming of what could be. but they knew. that even together. no matter how much they felt, could never be together. for 3 months is all they had. and 3 months is all they will have.
Posted By ann On 12.04.2012 @ 3:33 am
past
i wanna leave it behind! want to let go of my past and of all the things that are holding me back. Some things in my past chase me but i try to escape them. But whatever I do my past is part of me, of who i am becoming.
Posted By Ann On 11.28.2012 @ 4:04 pm
thought
The thoughts stream pastb like butterflies. You catch them and they turn to powder. Ther are not the butterfly you thought they were. You are bewildered and wonder if you can really trust your thoughts. Are they real or an illusion like the rest of life as you see it.
Posted By Ann On 11.17.2012 @ 10:25 pm
institutions
institutions..i stare blankly..what’s that…into the daze, the fuzziness, an understanding dawns..i have to write on it…why am i stumbling on the keys…many spelling mistakes, times running out..
Posted By Ann On 11.17.2012 @ 2:49 am
plays
I love going to plays! especially when I know the actors or stage crew. My favorite part is watching people I know become new characters on stage; especially when I forget that they are not who I know them as. Confused? Me, too!
Posted By ann On 02.11.2013 @ 10:05 am
happy
People say happiness is eternal, but they’re wrong. Happiness is as fleeting as a deer in the headlights. Cherish it, because when you spend all of your life thinking and wishing for it one shouldn’t let it slip through your fingertips.
Posted By Ann On 10.08.2012 @ 7:46 am
darlings
Darlings? Again? I already wrote about this. Oh my darlings, oh my darlings, oh my darlings, Clementines – you are tiny, baby oranges, so sweet and juicy, Clementines!
Posted By Ann On 08.30.2012 @ 4:37 pm
carbon
Drifting down to touch the skin of the earth like wandering lint on a freshly washed child, carbon snow, precipitation tainted from the nearby, coughing factory.
Posted By Ann On 08.26.2012 @ 2:59 pm
manners
manners, étiquette, what not to say and when not to say it. is manners going as far as kerbing what you should think? do i have any manners and will they be important in the future?
Posted By ann On 08.09.2012 @ 4:28 pm
puncture
There is nothing about you left that I have not discovered and yet each moment I spend with you becomes less like a fairy tale and more like a sword fight. And every time I hear you say my name like that, it’s like you’ve punctured my soul and I can’t go on fighting you without a shield.
Posted By Ann On 08.06.2012 @ 11:45 pm
secret
I have a lot of secrets. But of course I will not tell anything about it. I mean. That would kinda lost the meaning od the word “secret”, right? But if I think about the secret that should be revield, than I thing a human mind is the biggest secret in the world. And the most powerfull.
Posted By Ann On 08.04.2012 @ 6:48 am
stretcher
Wheeled away on a stretcher, some people’s nightmare, but it isn’t one when you’re completely alone, or when you’ve don it before, it’s remarkable how almost nothing becomes frightening when you’ve done it before. Experience, hindsight, whatever it is it’s 20/20
Posted By Ann On 07.18.2012 @ 9:22 pm
crust
Jerry’s favorite thing to eat was crust. It didn’t matter what kind of crust. It could be pizza crust, brownie crust, or even the crust of the earth. He just really loved crust. His mom thinks he has a problem, but he doesn’t think so. It’s perfectly normal for someone to enjoy crust.
Posted By Ann On 06.28.2012 @ 9:09 pm
minute
Minutes are too subjective for me. actually a minute is different in the eyes of the behold. just a few minutes could mean hours. for a few minutes more could mean just that. i like to deal with seconds because they’re short in anyone’s mind.
Posted By ann On 06.23.2012 @ 10:22 am
persons
Treat each others in different ways. There are good people and bad people in the world. Each person is different. One person is more unique than the other.
Posted By Ann On 06.20.2012 @ 4:24 pm
