Flotsam

[Flotsam is a series of catch-all posts that can include just about anything. If it seems even more random than the rest of the posts, then it'll likely wash ashore here.]

It was summer, so you let your hair grow long

and learned to shout secrets at the starts

spending nights cross-legged in the living room

in sweat soaked t-shirts in a size too big

Until you caught yourself in the mirror

feeling a little bit taller, not quite

recognizing the way your eyes seemed blurred

and how jokes and unrequited crushes aren’t as funny any more

Because you are sitting in a circle with strangers

playing old video games from when you were a child

drinking beer like you are old and grown

and tired when inside you are racing, itching

Desperate to stop (please stop!) and escape

into the sun, to feel the aching burn

against your skin, to be

furious and fragile and free

Big Pink Kraken