aisle nine

I hadn’t heard this song for years. 

I’m scanning the aisles of the supermarket, and it comes on. 

In an instant, I’m transported back to my senior year of high school. I’m in my first car, stick shift of course, and on my way to the final lacrosse game of my career. It’s bittersweet, because I know I’m not playing in college, and it will be the last time that I congregate with the team in uniform. These were my best friends, we’d been through so much together. On my way to that final game, this song came on over the radio. 

The sense memory of that moment of joyful loss is cemented in my DNA forever, unlocked today by this trip down aisle nine.

-m

August 18, 2020