Theme Fridays: i want

 THEME FRIDAYS

 

This week’s theme is courtesy of our dear J.  i don’t think i need to elaborate any further than to say:

i want

It’s in the wiggling her little fingers, that vertical line one gets between his bushy eyebrows.
It is the rocking from foot to bare foot or almost imperceptible little bounce on the heel.
It’s a tantrum, a sulk, a poked out bottom lip.
Sometimes it spills out in tears, pleading, folded hands.
Sometimes it softly parts lips, causes slight salivation.

You know…

It’s the shine of a new car, the name on the tag in that shirt, the zip code of a house.
It can be that one drink, one line, one cigarette, that one bowl of Cocoa Pebbles.
It can be the bulge of his bicep, the curve of her breasts, the weight of a wallet.

Power. Position. Prestige.

You know.

 

Or perhaps it is a feeling of warmth one hand creates in another.
Someone to say, ‘It’s okay.” Or, “I understand.” Or, “Come here.”
To be loved. To be known. That someone says your name.

The face of a flower. To laugh from one’s belly. To sing, to be comfortable with quiet. To love what is free.  Know what is needed, to know it intimately so as not to become lost in waste and the temporary- that which is easily taken away, broken, replaced.

i want…

What do you think Annie wants?
And J, what does she want?

(copyright 2008) c A Hughes
08.17.08