In Flux

Name: Casey Marie O’Brien, Yes, spelled with an e, not an a, Yes, a C, not a K.

Age: 18 years old, nearly 19, not nearly grown up.

Height: 5’5”, just a hair’s breadth above average.

Dress size: 6, approximately.

Hair color: Brown, a healthy hint of red.

Eye color: Brown, “chocolate” if you’re trying to flatter me.

Identity: shifting

Identity:

Reshaped by

Playing truth or dare at 2 am,

Always picking truth because

Vulnerability is exhilarating,

And I am drunk on the open air against my own bared heart.

Reshaped by

Books read by window filtered sunlight

Ideas hand delivered by black ink stamp letters.

Idenity:

Reshaped by

Opening night jitters

Closing night tears

A bouquet of flowers, a card with love inside

Reshaped by

Goodnight kisses

Fingers curled in my hair.  

Goodmorning hugs

Legs touching beneath the table.

Reshaped by

Ripples of laughter like waves in the ocean        

Lastly,

Importantly.

Identity: Reshaped by

Friends who finish my sentences

Friends who hold me up when I didn’t even know I was falling.

Friends who lift me higher than I knew we could go.

Casey Marie O’Brien

Identity: Shifting.