A.N. Walls

A.N. Walls is a writer hailing from the rural Midwest who likes to write whatever comes into her head on whatever paper is available at the moment, and then, when she gets the chance, she works it into something better. She has been published in the Tecumseh Review, a university publication local to her, as well as in Tap into Poetry and Withering Words. In her free time, she also enjoys spending time outside and with her cats and dogs. She was inspired to write "Waking" due to health issues that she lives with that impact her life and cause a great deal of fatigue. 

Easy read of the poems in the images above:

Waking

Waking does not come naturally,
Actually, I find it contrary to
My nature.
It’s as if once my body has gone offline,
It wants to stay perpetually
Powered down.
Not dead, but in suspension
I wake and my movements remain
Languid,
There’s a bug in my code
My body and my soul remain
Un-integrated, separate.
I wake and I’m piloting a
Doomed machine that lost the fight
Miles ago but is still rolling
Downhill, powered by gravity and
Nothing else.
I sleep and I feel sick because I do it.
I write this and I am tired, I have slept all evening;
(And I will soon sleep some more)
I want to keep writing but am tired at moving.
I wish I wasn’t twenty-something going on
Eighty-something.