September.
The sun was out, but on the beach
it was colder than it had been in the room that we shared off campus.
We buttoned up our thin cotton shirts.

I remember the brown bottles of ale
stuck in the sand between us.
Ice House.
Plank Road Brewery.
Ice Brewed.
I remember the picture on the label -
wood frame buildings nestled together,
snow on the ground, silver blue shadows, pale green spruce trees.

Beside an empty bottle of Ice House, an inch worm
was climbing a piece of driftwood that led to nowhere.
Shelly twisted the top off another bottle.
_____I continued my story.

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