Hannah E. Aaron
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Hello! I'm mostly a writer of fiction and poetry that tend to involve nature, family, and the idea of growth at the moment. Otherwise, I'm a reader, crafter, and full-time procrastinator!
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Cherry Willow Weeping
I’ve forgotten so much. I didn’t know as a child that I should have held on to the curves and turns and straight-aheads my parents drove to the homes you and your husband shared with us, with the rest of the church. The cabin your husband loved is only a glimpse of water the men fished on; a screened-in porch the youth occupied during dinner before the devotional began; the idea that there must have been trees all around. My mind has hacked the forest away, a lumberjack felling old growth only to abandon the trunks and branches for my neural pathways to decompose and reclaim. I can’t pick out which of the one-storeys past the park was the house you loved, the one where you hosted all the ladies and little me. The landmark I knew of was the weeping cherry willow my mom and I adored. It's probably gone—fallen or decayed or replaced—but I remember it, and look for it still.
By Hannah E. Aaron5 months ago in Poets
The Comfort of Chicken
In a pretty regular pattern for me now, I get inspired by Vocal Challenges and then proceed to miss the deadline, haha. Sometimes, I’ll only have an idea with no words actually written, but I had actually started a draft for the “Taste of Home” Challenge.
By Hannah E. Aaron11 months ago in Feast
The Prevent Extinctions Prompt
Hello Vocal Creators! Do you guys remember that one Vocal challenge about time travel? Here it is. I didn’t enter this challenge, but I had wanted to. I thought about writing a story where the main character worked for a time-travel agency and went back in time to prevent one of the last thylacines—the Tasmanina tiger—from dying of neglect or exposure in 1936 in Australia’s Beaumaris Zoo (according to the National Museum of Australia’s article “Extinction of thylacine”). I was thinking about this story idea today when it jumpstarted a prompt I thought I’d share with you!
By Hannah E. Aaron12 months ago in Writers
King
When I was an undergraduate, I truly met some wonderful Creative Writing professors. My poetry professor gave my class and me the assignment of completing a univocal poem, a piece where only one vowel is used throughout. It was an incredibly fun exercise, and one you might want to try as well! Here is the Wikipedia article “Univocalic” to help give more information and examples. My assignment with a few edits is below.
By Hannah E. Aaronabout a year ago in Poets
Trilobite
*This poem is another piece I wrote while in college. It has undergone a few edits.* They found it in the attic, shoved in the corner of a half-empty cardboard box. Shaped like a flattened egg, like a tailless horseshoe crab, graphite gray, a series of carpet-creases slinking down its back. “This used to be alive,” her father said, tossing it up, from palm to palm. Bury it then, she thought, her eyes leaping from the fossil to the insulation-wound still waiting for drywall-suture to the fossil again. “Millions of years ago. Little terror of the sea floor,” he continued, smiling at it, then at her. “Here.” He placed it in her hands, cradled, the weight scratching with insect-prickles up her arms, burrowing behind her eyes to pupate. The nightmares: it molted like a cicada, crawling on centipede legs, pincers at her ankles. She cocooned it in mud only to wake up to it by her bed, clumps of clay crusted into eyespots. “Take it back,” she cried to her father. He laughed, ruffled her hair and sat it atop his desk, turning it so she could feel its stare.
By Hannah E. Aaronabout a year ago in Poets
Creating a Collection?
A couple of days before 2024 rolled over into 2025, I got one of my many lovingly-purchased-or-gifted journals and finally started filling some of its blank pages. (All my other, many, unused journals are jealous now, I’m sure.) I started listing out some of my writing goals for the new year, and many of them included Vocal.
By Hannah E. Aaronabout a year ago in Motivation
