Writing Assignment: Before
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Write what happened just before the photograph, below, was taken.
Tabby’s Entry:
hop hop hop went the frog through the bushes
she laughed in delight as it croaked its delectable goodbye.
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Allison Mack’s Entry:
the fingernails sharplike razors held tighlyt to their newly romanced, entranced cotton counter part
she enchants the woods the way a charmer mesmerizes his diamond studded live scarf that speaks in two directions at once.
her reckless mound of joyous exploration intoxicates every leaf, cell of moss, atom of air until the universe can do nothing but hold onto
her beauty
her exuberance
her charm
don’t go!
don’t enter the brutality of the coarse natural form of relationships
don’t step out of the bush
i can hold you here
shelter your curiosity so your questions will remain eternally incomplete
you laugh
a joke
naivete
innocence
is lost
Ariella’s Entry:
The tall grass trees in the field that line the forest behind your house are enough to hold you for hours. You are still
young enough to be part of these woods: your legs run
with blood and warm, thick summer air is alive with singing bugs.
You hear a sound you know to be not this forest.
You turn, catch your skirt. Catch yourself
before you slip in front of him.
Smile and curtsy.If you giggle it off, Mother
will be pleased with the photo.
Gina
July 24, 2008innocence
soft trees blow
in the wind