POETRY OF MEDIUM
Gray Sweatshirt
a symbol of sorts…
on my first weekend with it, I spilled caramel Peruvian coffee. it looked like a birthmark, with a dark chocolate smell but darker. I still wear that sweatshirt to study, leaning back into “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez. in the studio, grey sweatshirt accumulating every color. no point trying to get it out, color symbiosis. have you ever seen rugby players? they always play in gray sweatshirts with the sleeves cut off. mud and autumn and wind on their arms. as a father my somewhat thinned rags are a dad-sweatshirt that’s remembered by my children as a castle in the sky.
©Daniel, 2024
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