MINT / HOT ORANGE

You find a spot right next to the air conditioning vent, sit down with a mound of shaved ice drizzled with condensed milk, mint leaf and grass jelly on top. A memory that always feels like the first time. The only kind of memory you want now that the heat is gone. You never remember passion, only how the rush tastes—on your tongue, in your throat, in the pit that once caged butterflies.