No 6: 17-SOMETHING

PHOTO BY LUCIA AUERBACH

KATIE KERN

Growing older is reminiscing over watercolored

memories we force ourselves to remember

I was two

Picnic chairs

Cupcakes

Pastel sprinkles

The first washed over painting memory I recall

Now you’re sitting on a worn-out brown couch

Of a strangers basement

Laying down next to another 17 something

stranger

You try to remember your watercolored

memories

While keeping up a washed-out teenage

conversation