MillieMilesinTheWild

I remember she smelled like cheap canned beer and Ajax dish soap;
Like that industrial elevator onto McClure 4, with the rainbow carpet walls sticking to its skeleton.

It has been a long while now since I walked the circle of white.
My childhood packed up into two Hefty trash bags - tearing at the edges of my fingertips.

The salt rained down like stars, scattering their souls across the ebony pavement. It burned through microscopic flakes of glass that lay there, turning to liquid ash. Like a forest fire, life began to sprout within the constellation's cradle.

Cute yet reclusive
She was a coconut cat
Fur white as a spring road
Eyes blue as a river flowed 
No monter my pace 
She flees with haste 
Avoiding me- 
A scowl and a huff 

O’ my beloved Croissant, 
Your beauty, grace full of permanent taunt, 
Croissant's silken surface, 
Your crunch fulfills my life purpose.

It was the second time around for the both of them.

He had long left The Heart of Dixie for her Green Mountain state.

1102 miles through the world as he knew it -

1102 miles finding his Forever.