[Music] [Instrumental] [Riverglades Black Magic]

'Sea of Grass' Deluxe

(C) 2025 Kyrinn S. Eis All Rights Reserved Worldwide

Marissa,

I don't know what you think of them, but I came across them again and started remembering my life when I had, The Sundays, on cassette.

I must had got it not long before I went up to College away, and listened to it so much it started sounding funny on my player from all the rewindings and playing.  I have physical recollections of where my room layout was and moving through the floorplan, including my red and black satin comforter covered couch.

I had a roommate who was never home, and before winter, he moved out and I was so very alone in that place -- he had been a co-student with my sister and older, somewhere between our ages, closer to me, but still, years older and would not be an influence except to be the butt of a few jokes with Len over the phone back in Miami.

I met a girl, a wandering witch, and she would come over and I gave her my bed and I slept on the couch.

She was a special kind of person, like a butterfly.

She and I were players in an RPG campaign run by a guy from a little town in central FL; eventually, we became a household, and a local girl, K, became my periodic girlfriend and another local, G., would stop by hours before he went in to work on the morning dishwashing position.  K, G, and I would orbit around each other in strange mechanics and none of us were really getting exactly what we wanted in a three-turn cycle from the others: K was 'free' and would roll-in as she pleased, G liked/wanted me, and I desired K, and she kept trying to get me and G together, and I was just ... ignorant of his attraction towards me -- like it didn't even make sense -- yet, I liked him as a friend, his mind was very different and he seemed delighted with my bizarre thought process.

You see, I had left a bunch of friends in Miami as a 'leader' in another group of followers and strong personalities where friends would orbit different folks for days, weeks, or more, at a time, and then eject and lock-in to another locus for a while -- I had been the Rosetta Stone to that complex, five person -- inclusive -- system, and our relationships in and out -- our girlfriends and other friends -- it was so... Miami of back then: had car, would travel...

When I arrived in College Town, it had been an ideal time to leave home, and in those months prior to meeting K, I had been knocked so out of whack -- up all night for weeks at a time, and riding my bike in the dark all over the ten blocks around campus by instinct -- just sublime lone-ness.

When K first entered, she and I hit it off at a local production of the life of Galileo, and C had first tried her charms, but by next morning, she and I were ... seeing each other.

Like the breeze, that one.