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diff --git a/src/riptide_memory.txt b/src/riptide_memory.txt index 17b3929..60a42dc 100644 --- a/src/riptide_memory.txt +++ b/src/riptide_memory.txt
@@ -27,5 +27,25 @@ my body away, like an angel of death, to the stars.
27 27
28In Arizona, I thought I would forget the rain, 28In Arizona, I thought I would forget the rain,
29forget its sound on a roof like a hard wind, forget 29forget its sound on a roof like a hard wind, forget
30its smell like a far away ocean. Luckily for me 30its smell like a far away ocean. Luckily for me
31it rains here. Luckily because I forget too easily. 31it rains here. Luckily, because I forget too easily.
32
33In a dream, my father is caught by a riptide off-shore.
34He's pulled far out, far enough that the shoreline's
35a line in his memory on the horizon. I can see him
36swimming, hand over hand, pulling his small weight
37
38back to land. I see him as another shipwreck victim,
39coughing sand and seawater, beard woven with seaweed.
40I see him laying there a long time. I see all this
41as he tells me the story, years later, the riptide
42
43only a ghost in his memory, I only a child falling
44asleep. My mother's making mayonnaise rolls
45in the kitchen, a recipe I'll send for years later,
46in Arizona, in the monsoon season, when my thirst
47
48pulls me back home, my memory's lonesome twinkle
49like stars above the mountains. I'll send for it
50and try to make them, but in the thin air they'll
51crumble into dust like desert air, like a memory.