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2009-09-29T21:20:20-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 56, Reviews: 1, Complete

thoughts on separate universes.

rest, slide, stop

2009-05-26T23:36:43-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 39, Reviews: 2, Complete

the shape of words and the weight of sounds.

dreaming heat

2009-05-03T17:55:48-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 28, Reviews: 0, Complete

i am the balance, the bottom of the valley.

stuttering

2009-03-12T22:06:56-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Hurt/Comfort
Chapters: 1, Words: 225, Reviews: 2, Complete

trying to explain the concept of distance.

cocoa, milk, and thinking of you

2009-03-09T21:19:36-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Song
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 25, Reviews: 2, Complete

i am.

the still AM

2009-03-02T23:14:18-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 87, Reviews: 3, Complete

criss-crossing telephone wires connect house to house with crackling thoughts and ferry all these dreams to you and back in the still A.M.

dreams from december

2009-01-02T23:28:44-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 256, Reviews: 1, Complete

it rains so much the sound is leaking through my head, water trickling between my thoughts & dreams as i sleep

night driving

2008-11-04T19:16:44-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Song
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 212, Reviews: 0, Complete

memory & dream. i am on my way to find you and if i find myself along the way it’s just as well.

songs for myself

2008-10-05T09:58:42-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
Spanish, Rated: K+
Poetry/Hurt/Comfort
Chapters: 1, Words: 180, Reviews: 2, In-Progress

i should look closer i should look farther i should watch for the ocean behind your eyes on the days when they match the sky, this ocean-matching sky...

medicine trees

2008-09-16T17:47:26-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Nature
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 281, Reviews: 2, In-Progress

creeping seeping jungle thoughts are climbing through my brain. three movements

hollyhocks & the cottonwood trees

2008-07-23T19:14:23-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Nature
English, Rated: K+
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 28, Reviews: 4, Complete

july thunder storms in.

love and origami

2008-07-23T18:45:04-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Love
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 41, Reviews: 5, Complete

ways around the heat that sticks words to my skin.

flip sides of the fourth of july

2008-07-23T18:26:25-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Hurt/Comfort
Chapters: 1, Words: 47, Reviews: 1, Complete

i talk to you like gravity, groundbreaking and unchanging.

ca li for n ia

2008-05-14T15:59:23-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 78, Reviews: 5, Complete

the bright tumbling sunshine calls me out to baptise my feet in wholly-chlorine water.

things i think i might know

2008-05-14T15:50:14-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Hurt/Comfort
Chapters: 1, Words: 86, Reviews: 2, Complete

that's what they tell me, talking in rooms so full of air conditioning i can barely stand it.

wednesday mornings

2008-04-15T22:42:46-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 60, Reviews: 2, Complete

at least they have each other to fall in love with.

how to let go

2008-03-09T18:13:47-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 30, Reviews: 5, Complete

i am slowly learning better...

taking the sky

2008-02-18T22:40:40-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 56, Reviews: 6, Complete

so you always told me you hated big cities & it leaves me to wonder...

motionloveless

2008-02-18T22:03:54-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Suspense
Chapters: 1, Words: 78, Reviews: 5, Complete

i can see you're in love with motion; it's the way you move...

colors

2007-12-12T22:11:02-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 4, Words: 483, Reviews: 7, Complete

streamsofconscious in color. a collection. i'm coloring it all blue, just for you, just like the clouds that cloud my head today. didn't you say you liked blue?

your hands and a full sky

2007-12-10T17:11:22-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Fantasy
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 54, Reviews: 5, Complete

the air smells like rain today, and your hands remind me of birds

angel bones

2007-12-04T16:05:44-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Fantasy
Chapters: 2, Words: 981, Reviews: 4, Complete

i want to write something beautiful intangible untouchable unreachable unfallible undeniable unshakeable unbreakable rhapsodically epiphanic anything anything i want to write it on your skin over your bones so you’ll never forget...

flutterbutterfly

2007-11-26T22:46:32-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 27, Reviews: 2, Complete

my butterfly pulse flutters inconsistently beneath...

expectations of a moment

2007-11-26T22:45:25-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 70, Reviews: 2, In-Progress

in the afternoon light, it's not so hard to believe that you and i too are made of starpieces.

flourescent lullaby

2007-11-26T22:28:01-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 60, Reviews: 2, Complete

i noticed you feeling down passing through and through places we thought we knew

hold me stronger

2007-11-26T22:26:56-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 41, Reviews: 1, Complete

these days rush by in blurs of inconsistent motion

too much autumn intensified

2007-11-07T20:26:40-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 139, Reviews: 2, Complete

thinking of how we'll weave the sunshine through and through with jack's mannequin and spitalfield

darling dearest's BREAKDOWN

2007-11-07T20:17:21-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 60, Reviews: 11, Complete

darling can't help that she's gorgeous as she deconstructs

a realization approaching november

2007-10-17T20:51:02-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 76, Reviews: 4, Complete

i stand amazed at what i wonder of myself as thoughts beat flightish wings around my face.

autumn again

2007-10-15T22:36:00-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Nature
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 106, Reviews: 7, Complete

tell me, did you start to forget yourself in the reflections of plipplop puddles pooling on the asphalt?

excerpts from a summer

2007-10-15T22:27:19-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 6, Words: 248, Reviews: 5, Complete

on paper such words are mine, but out loud they're just harder to find.

remember that my arms are not prison bars

2007-10-03T21:25:21-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Suspense
Chapters: 1, Words: 261, Reviews: 4, Complete

no longer aiming for something just like heaven, our information travels faster on mornings like this.

expanses of paper and sand

2007-09-09T19:19:13-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Friendship
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 186, Reviews: 3, Complete

there's a girl i know, gone now to a place that only existed on a map to me 30 burning nights and days away

variations on a theme: sunshine

2007-08-29T21:32:46-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 3, Words: 207, Reviews: 7, Complete

Two of these are preposted, and there's one new piece. Consolidated because they all contain a sunshine element.

portrait

2007-08-29T21:27:23-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Friendship
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 77, Reviews: 2, Complete

pencil sketch of a girl can't really decide who she is all her lines keep shifting and changing.

no sleep tonight

2007-08-29T21:06:45-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Fantasy
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 90, Reviews: 2, Complete

mad hatters and batters and butterfly smiles can't soothe me to sleep tonight...

a type of winter lovesong

2007-08-29T20:32:21-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 2, Words: 74, Reviews: 5, Complete

Lovesongs of a winter nature, written in January.

nights pt iii

2007-06-22T00:09:20-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 20, Reviews: 2, Complete

neon electric flowers fill in the absence of stars

Park Interlude: Optimism & Pigeons

2007-06-09T11:22:47-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Humor
English, Rated: K+
Humor/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 230, Reviews: 2, Complete

Valentine thinks that pigeons are only disease infested rats with wings. June loves to scatter them and watch the pretty oilslick colors on their wings shimmer. Two ways of seeing the world two philosophies of life one hilarious argument in the park.

organic chemistry

2007-05-27T00:30:34-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 22, Reviews: 2, Complete

such is he and she, such a beautiful organic machine

wishings

2007-05-26T14:53:59-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 58, Reviews: 2, Complete

i threw a penny in a fountain, but i don't think mr. lincoln was listening

progression

2007-05-24T17:12:55-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 91, Reviews: 1, Complete

i got lost in the 4 o'clock haze of nonmotion as it dragged into the night...

modernity

2007-05-23T20:48:49-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Love
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 49, Reviews: 2, Complete

amid the chaos of one million trembling words, i whisper...

solving for l ove

2007-04-18T16:34:26-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Love
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 33, Reviews: 2, Complete

in a mathematical world, calculators could solve all of our problems

waltz the day away

2007-01-30T19:07:43-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Love
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 32, Reviews: 2, Complete

beautiful thoughts of you, streaming out in measures of 3,6,9

like waking up at 1:11

2007-01-08T19:11:10-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Angst/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 91, Reviews: 1, Complete

the truth could be much more painful

but oh

2006-12-23T15:06:59-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Angst/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 47, Reviews: 2, Complete

how beautiful is she...

aching truths of blood and bone

2006-12-22T13:09:55-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 32, Reviews: 2, Complete

inside of me there is a landscape of dreaming colors

tell it to the radio

2006-12-22T12:53:31-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Angst/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 96, Reviews: 1, Complete

no one else is listening

one hundred plus one

2006-10-10T19:02:43-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 70, Reviews: 2, Complete

here lies innocence, next to originality, please R(est) I(n) P(eace) forever and don't please come back

like nothing else mattered

2006-10-06T15:42:13-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 36, Reviews: 3, Complete

if the words fell out of my head pretty enough...

just like slipping into old clothing

2006-09-29T14:56:48-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 51, Reviews: 2, Complete

(without having to communicate about it all...)

after rain

2006-09-27T21:47:39-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 30, Reviews: 1, Complete

shades of light haze in sentences of slick-scuffed black...

i lost that sort of thing a while ago

2006-09-20T21:35:59-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 31, Reviews: 1, Complete

did you know?

Ten Minutes

2006-09-18T18:27:50-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Essay
English, Rated: K
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 582, Reviews: 4, In-Progress

Originally an English assignment, but I was rather pleased with it. About marching band competitions.

in an effort to be more productive

2006-08-27T18:54:23-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
General
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 114, Reviews: 2, Complete

happily ever after (in cracked fairy-tale land with a fading fast t-e-a party) Very strange indeed.

when i wish hard enough

2006-07-01T17:13:47-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 100, Reviews: 3, Complete

please tell me, did you ever believe in prince charming when you told me all those pretty-perfect stories?

the night is blue blackandwhite

2006-07-01T14:11:29-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 78, Reviews: 3, Complete

once upon a dusky remember-when i pretended our footprints would never fade behind us...

urban citystreet BEAT

2006-06-22T13:57:31-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 71, Reviews: 1, Complete

"urban street sprawl-crawl/ (laughing all the way)/ this is your city beat/ your all-new street..."

sax & jazz

2006-06-16T14:13:29-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 28, Reviews: 3, Complete

lazy days & champagne nights/ fedora sax & jazz [inspired by Sinatra, although apparently jazz and fedoras are more 20s]

One More Go 'Round

2006-06-03T15:56:08-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 104, Reviews: 4, Complete

No, just give me one more go-round/ I'm not ready to hear that final sound.

carpe diem

2006-05-28T15:32:52-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 78, Reviews: 2, Complete

carpe diem (seize the day, seize it) is all you ever say, carpe diem (seize the day)

tissuethinandink

2006-03-03T19:41:25-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 49, Reviews: 5, Complete

i'll make my paper-whisper escape...

This Is A Nation Afraid of Silence

2006-01-17T19:40:18-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 105, Reviews: 5, Complete

We're so connected we've lost connection...

making it's worriedwasted w o r d s

2006-01-07T20:15:17-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 85, Reviews: 2, Complete

chained to a silent/ (silently chained)/ a tongue to(o)/ (mute.) A mesh of strange styles with word re-arrangements and lots of parentheses.

STOP

2005-11-15T16:44:03-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Life
English, Rated: K
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 139, Reviews: 1, Complete

neverslowingdownfeelinglikeicannot .S.T.O.P.

Monday Has Gone Askew

2005-06-02T20:51:51-08:00

Author: Lost In Context
Fantasy
English, Rated: K
Angst/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 112, Reviews: 2, Complete

A nonsense-ish poem that actually has a meaning. Thanks to Coldplay and Diana Wynne Jones.