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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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
Wedding Florals
I’ve mentioned in another piece that I work for a tea shop and tea room which also is a florist. As I plan my wedding for this May, I feel incredibly grateful to have seen floral designers busy making arrangements and to have learned some tips from them when dealing with flowers. Here are a few considerations I’ve thought about that might be helpful for you, too!
By Hannah E. Aaronabout a year ago in Marriage
#100 Things in 20 Minutes
I heard about this challenge ages ago through Judey Kalchik's post below. And I did attempt it a several months back (ten, according to my Vocal drafts) where I used animals as a main topic constraint. I think the sole not-entirely-scrap-worthy "thing" that came from that exercise was the following: "Beware the scorpions of North Georgia. They will invade your bathroom with little translucent babies on their backs."
By Hannah E. Aaronabout a year ago in Writers
The Beauty of Wedding Expos
As a little girl, I don’t think I imagined what my wedding would be like very much. I loved watching shows like ‘Say Yes to the Dress’ and ‘Four Weddings’ as a teenager, but I oohed and ahhed over the finery and festivities in a largely abstract way.
By Hannah E. Aaronabout a year ago in Marriage
Food for Memories
My grandmother, Mawmaw, was a key cook in all of my family’s holiday meals. 2024 marked the second Thanksgiving and Christmas without her, and today is the second New Year’s. She made the holidays so special just by being herself, so enthused and happy to celebrate and be with all her babies, grand-babies, and great grand-babies. However, her food always sweetened the celebrations—often literally through her cakes, pies, custards, and more.
By Hannah E. Aaronabout a year ago in Feast
A Gifted CD
The CD was compiled with others in a case that, if memory serves, was a bit like a photo album with those filmy sleeves. When late-elementary or early-middle school me discovered it while helping my grandmother babysit some of my cousins for the summer, finding the title of the CD seemed impossible. The display side was almost entirely black with a small relief of a coiled snake. Younger-me thought it must be called 'Elektra' since that was one of the words that stood out.
By Hannah E. Aaron2 years ago in Beat
