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The Architecture of Disaster

2008-08-08T17:57:41-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 139, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-8-08, Published: 8-8-08
Status: Complete

I draw your bones/ guessing at the lines that make up the hall of your rib cage/ the arches of your shoulder blades.

The Morning Train Hush

2008-08-08T17:22:33-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 67, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-8-08, Published: 8-8-08
Status: Complete

tangible i taste the sound full like water/like coffee lingers on my tongue milk sugar sharp"

O Valencia!

2008-07-20T07:43:15-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: Young Adult
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Drama
Chapters: 6, Words: 9,635, Reviews: 18 Updated: 7-20-08, Published: 2-27-08
Status: In-Progress

In the summer, Rosaline turns sweet sixteen and gets a job at a coffee house in midtown Valencia. And on a day when the average air temperature is one hundred degrees and the sun has been snared by the city’s trees, she meets a boy named Reuben.

monsoons

2008-05-25T13:45:24-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 122, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-25-08, Published: 5-25-08
Status: Complete

i think about monsoons the long slow word moon and tides the city turns into a river wide and deep and green.

my heart is a calling card

2008-05-25T13:10:00-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 107, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-25-08, Published: 5-25-08
Status: Complete

and i think it could be colored in magenta roses saturating the heavy sky above faster than the speed of conversation.

yours and mine condemning stars

2008-05-23T15:00:00-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 80, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-23-08, Published: 5-23-08
Status: Complete

and it doesn't fit, the eyes beneath your gently closed lids; your calluses and fingers...

edge of night

2008-05-23T14:53:42-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 42, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-23-08, Published: 5-23-08
Status: Complete

at the edge of night where the streets begin to end and the rain is all around

like flowers like pain

2008-05-22T15:11:58-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 31, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-22-08, Published: 5-22-08
Status: In-Progress

i wonder what is written there/ in the cracking of my skull?

San Andreas

2008-05-13T20:26:21-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 102, Reviews: 5 Updated: 5-13-08, Published: 5-13-08
Status: Complete

So she says: this is like my home- in the smoke and thickness, the bitterest taste /“I remember in summer, the way we couldn’t go out…”

Bright Eyes

2008-05-10T14:26:45-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: Young Adult
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Supernatural/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,602, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-10-08, Published: 5-10-08
Status: In-Progress

Under the industrial yellow streetlight, Caroline uncharitably thinks Violet’s lipstick makes her mouth look like a big wet gash.It’s raining, but the sound is swallowed by the traffic noise of the city street corner, and only the spatter of thick drops a

What I Did This Summer:

2008-05-03T03:48:43-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: Young Adult
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 429, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-3-08, Published: 5-3-08
Status: Complete

Don’t answer; it’s not real.

time like a ghost

2008-03-07T18:38:45-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 344, Reviews: 1 Updated: 3-7-08, Published: 3-7-08
Status: Complete

and she says "you should stay up all night" and i like the thought of the sunrise and the morning light so i drink paper cups and plastic glasses filled with stale coffee and thick golden honey and too much cream.

sleeping in

2008-03-04T11:17:36-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 128, Reviews: 3 Updated: 3-4-08, Published: 3-4-08
Status: Complete

there’s a tamarind tree outside my window/it gapes at me twisting branches like faces

the nature of my bones

2008-03-04T07:49:38-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Supernatural/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 78, Reviews: 2 Updated: 3-4-08, Published: 3-4-08
Status: Complete

i am the cold and the pavement the brittle blue light

Smoke and Lilies

2008-01-15T21:12:01-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 106, Reviews: 7 Updated: 1-15-08, Published: 1-15-08
Status: Complete

i lost you in sound, and found her in the color leaking from a smoke invaded sky as saffron sun smothers my mouth with blood red pollen stains my hands for days after i think of her when i look down at them and not of you.

Shades

2008-01-15T21:02:35-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 297, Reviews: 3 Updated: 1-15-08, Published: 1-15-08
Status: Complete

i wander alone along asphalt expanses mirrored by the scuff of denim as my bike clambers/rambles along. this paint its peeling too.

light pollution ii

2007-05-07T22:26:43-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 140, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-7-07, Published: 5-7-07
Status: In-Progress

an incandescent good night: i wished on an artificial streetlight star that every word i whispered was a sonnet abab cdcd efef gg

Legend

2007-04-17T19:38:31-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: Young Adult
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,479, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-17-07, Published: 4-17-07
Status: In-Progress

When Morning's brother Andrew dies, no one wants to talk about it, least of all Morning. But when apparitions of the dead boy begin to appear he is forced to talk about his guilt and deal with his grief. loose modern version of King Arthur stories

January Rains: this night misses you

2007-02-27T21:29:04-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 57, Reviews: 3 Updated: 2-27-07, Published: 2-27-07
Status: Complete

this night is missing you a bit like me too down soaking walks wet with midnight and whisper white magnolias.

delicate

2006-04-19T22:16:56-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 54, Reviews: 8 Updated: 4-19-06, Published: 4-19-06
Status: Complete

delicate is she, of eyes and face and nose and mind (oh god how beautiful the inside of her skull).

Bedtime for Adeline

2006-03-16T22:00:42-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,411, Reviews: 8 Updated: 3-16-06, Published: 3-16-06
Status: Complete

“Yes, Adeline. A storybook ending like in all the fairytales…because eventually the prince found a handsome young knight for the lonely princess, and the knight and the beautiful princess lived together happily ever after. The end.”

For the Summer

2006-01-10T22:26:10-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,390, Reviews: 3 Updated: 1-10-06, Published: 1-10-06
Status: Complete

June Aubrey suffers from the overbearing machinations of his calculating older sister Ashleigh, as she tries to keep abreast of the ever lurking threat of their imminent poverty and keep up appearences.

i paint the winter as all alone

2006-01-05T23:14:52-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 119, Reviews: 8 Updated: 1-5-06, Published: 1-5-06
Status: Complete

an exodus of a million crazy white birds to everywhere you've created in your heart, all the moments /you're making up for/ lost time spent living in telephone wires

i dreampt one night that you had wings

2005-10-29T13:20:07-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 2, Words: 204, Reviews: 14 Updated: 10-29-05, Published: 10-24-05
Status: Complete

and (she) gutters at the speed of light, on and off agian like the goddess of fireflies- - -:- - - a faded butterfly from the softest of flowers you trail their scent after you/ so that the walls echo back your cinnamon voice.

and it's norestforthewicked

2005-10-19T22:02:15-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 150, Reviews: 5 Updated: 10-19-05, Published: 10-19-05
Status: Complete

she wants to be let out of the cage i call home.

seize the day

2005-10-09T21:00:16-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 82, Reviews: 8 Updated: 10-9-05, Published: 10-9-05
Status: Complete

'seize the day (in 3/4 time'

especially

2005-09-27T23:13:15-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 136, Reviews: 9 Updated: 9-27-05, Published: 9-27-05
Status: Complete

and especially, i think i'll sleep away the day so i can wake up within blue jazz-resounding mo(u)rnings/ they render my mind in t e c h n i c o l o u r so bright like summer storms

the spaces where you're not

2005-09-19T22:27:29-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 161, Reviews: 8 Updated: 9-19-05, Published: 9-19-05
Status: Complete

and even when i pour out these mix-up, muddled-up, nonsense-words it isn't enough and you still find ways to creep back inside my head/ then everything is coloured by you

on the off chance of sunny weather

2005-09-13T21:57:11-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 104, Reviews: 5 Updated: 9-13-05, Published: 9-13-05
Status: Complete

but, oh! on the off chance of sunny weather, it feels like a million-zillion doves settling in the eves of my mind, as each snowy thought falls gently into place.

asleep on monday morning

2005-08-10T19:31:57-08:00

Author: ancient trees
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 131, Reviews: 5 Updated: 8-10-05, Published: 8-10-05
Status: Complete

ink drips lazily like a sunday afternoon soaking into my skin so that when i press fingertips to the plaster ceiling they leave behind pretty words and prints of my calloused hands (like fevered hearts) making mistaken angels out of girls with coloured ey