I got lost in a wave of the past tonight. It came up over me, a flood of unmoored memories.
I let go. My feet clenched into the sand, but my back arched up as the water pulled me away, a gravity all its own.
I was floating. Reminiscing in a tide of nostalgia that tasted of salt tears and burnt sugar marshmallows. The years flowed around me, echoes, bodiless entities, fluid.
2000 Block party champagne fear of the dark firecracker sparkler thirteen too young to be two thousand
2010 destiny graduation disbelief reality unanswered telephone calls walls vellum parchment processions
89 cupcakes yellow brick roads desert desserts blue bell ice cream wooden paddles barbie parades red flyer wagons sand dune oceans
The wave crests and crashes over my head, toes reaching for purchase in the silty soil but finding nothing but blue sky as my lungs fill with briny sobs.
I am lost to the wave.