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1. Cold tile floor
before the house walls
had memories
seeped
into them
Like the dirty fingerprints of us
kids
2.
Salt
water and
sand between my toes
and
a bathing suit wedgie
We held hands,
my sister and I,
and I made her laugh for the first
time
Still proud now
3.
Salchipapas
on
dirty
litter-ridden streets
Fingers dipped in
jars of peanut butter
My tongue
sloppy
with Spanish
and first kisses
4.
This one I don’t remember
-I
wasn’t there-
only the aftermath
Vomit on my dress
and later
your
phone call
“Please don’t speak to me again”
And
I didn’t
5.
Heat
under my sneakers
The
walk back to campus
from
the
also crazy friend’s
The sun shone through me
Golden
Before the rainy day
where
I destroyed my arms
I can’t hold them in my hands
but
in my heart
memories
of
The ‘I love you’s before the anger
Crying from laughing so hard
LSD-induced epiphanies
And
discovering how to
be
happy
The pieces of my father
in
the way I care too little
and the pieces of my mother
in
the way I care too much
