Saturday, Outdoor Shopping Mall by Alyssa Trivett

Alyssa Trivett is a wandering soul from the Midwest. When not working two jobs, she listens to music while chirping down coffee and scrawling lines on the back of gas station receipts. Her work has appeared in many places (including the trash bin), but also at In Between Hangovers, Duane's PoeTree site, and recently at The Rye Whiskey Review and Under the Bleachers.

Saturday, Outdoor Shopping Mall

There was a 

Fall tide in the afternoon,

the hours melted away,

with busybodies

and shopping bags floating and coffee cups bobbing.

I wandered with a best friend 

across scarred cement 

amongst stores of every type of clothing and every type of everything.

My pocket change rattled,

was almost

high school football 

team tackled

by a small crowd.

Threw comic bubbles.

I'll never forget it.

Even if I made eight 

figure-eights and

followed every 

diagonal arrow

of where the bathroom swore it should have been.