It tugs at me, filling me with the kind of seasick nostalgia that can hit you in the gut when you find an old concert ticket in your purse or an old coin machine ring you got down at the boardwalk on a day when you went searching for mermaids in the surf with your best friend. That punch of nostalgia hits me now, and I start to sink down on the sky-colored quilt, feeling the nubby fabric under my fingers, familiar as the topography of my hand.

Placid Girl