some good stuff so far

a wash

wind & waves today
ate away
with eager sand
teeth these

sad juts of
sharp edges

from the shells
of my everyday
selves

a baptism
of beach

black cobbles
count each
gull shriek

each prayer
loosed from
its mooring &
washed

wavering through
grey mists &
opalescent air

find me fresh
intent in long
saline washes

of agate coast
& its waves ripped

from an ocean
too cold
too wild
to cower in

seawater

see water
redraw lines
i was sure
there was

shore

sea brine
breaths shiver
down my throat

taunt a
mountain-muted
tongue tucked
too long in

dry valleys

should've
left myself
by the sea

shipwrecked
without
any qualms

landlocked

caught & roll
in too many wrong

riptides

gotta get
a breath
of beach &
a breadth
of better lungs

this heart-
beat's
breakers

in driftwood
bones

& saltwater
swims
through
these veins

stuff your
pockets
with poems

& let's swim
until the
shoreline

disappears

50 Top-Played Tunes of 2017

So, in descending order, here are the 50 tracks I listened to the most last year.

Jungle by Tash Sultana
Does This Last by Boo Seeka
Not Above Love by AlunaGeorge
Thick as Thieves by The Temper Trap
Never Start by Middle Kids
Cool Out by Matthew E. White, Natalie Press
Humans by Boo Seeka
Make Them Wheels Roll by SAFIA
Back for Me by Electric Guest
Wild Horses by Bishop Briggs
Free by Broods
On + Off by Maggie Rogers
Selfish by The Kite String Tangle
Strange or Be Forgotten by Temples
Alchemy by Willaris. K
Do You Ever Glow? by Green Buzzard
That Message by Holy Holy
Through the Fog by MUTO
Turn Up Your Light by Boo Seeka
Unbound by Asgeir
All Disco by Elbow
Die Young by Sylvan Esso
All Lit Up by Communist Daughter
Rooting For You by London Grammar
Twist Your Arm by Ten Fe
Atlas In Your Eye by Dustin Tebbutt
Beacon Hill by The Rural Alberta Advantage
Big Picture by London Grammar
Blue Monday (cover) by HEALTH
Calling Out by Boo Seeka
Fake Magic by Peking Duk, AlunaGeorge
Love is Mystical by Cold War Kids
No Reason by Bonobo, Nick Murphy
Feel the Way I Do by The Jungle Giants
Not A Fighter by Airling
Wasted on Fidelity by Cameron Avery
Whiteout Conditions by The New Pornographers
Be About You by Winston Surfshirt
But I'll Try by Ainslie Wills
Double Dutch by Superfood
Fading by Vallis Alps
Feel It by Georgia
Hold Back by Communist Daughter
Midnight Hour by Teischa
The Highs by Panama
Something For Your M.I.N.D. by Superorganism
83 Days by Wafia
Bitter End by Gordi
Crushing Hard by Urthboy
Does Your City Sleep Like Mine by Jim Lawrie

infp me

"You feel out of control in your outer surroundings, and instead of addressing it, you feel overwhelmed, powerless, and withdraw into what others might call “procrastination mode.”

When you are around people who try to assert power over others you feel the need to stand up for the disenfranchised "underdog."
You are overly giving with your energy in service to others, but feel emotionally depleted afterwards, wishing that others would naturally serve you back. When they don't you feel taken advantage of, but feel too awkward or bad asking directly to get your need met. Besides, you want it to be their authentic idea, not yours.

You hold endless space for other people's emotions, but find yourself alone and unable to communicate the depth of what you're experiencing.

You escape the outer world by engaging in excessive reading, video games, TV marathons, or other isolation strategies.

You feel indecisive, and commit to things only to cancel from overwhelm at the last minute, often creating friction in your relationships. When you finally know what you want it's difficult to communicate how important it is to you, only to end up feeling marginalized in the attempt.

You feel criticized for being too emotional and for taking things too personally. It makes sense - because to you everything IS personal."

How to Flirt, A Compilation

• Follow the person you like around at a close distance making the waluigi "wah" sound.
• After high-fiving a guy add some romance and flirtation by immediately sniffing your hand.
• When you see a cute guy at the bookstore, slap a book out of their hands and scream "WORD PRISON!" and karate-chop the air a lot.
• Write your number on his hand. while he's sleeping.
• Follow the object of your desire from a 50' distance screaming the lyrics from Lion King's "Can You Feel The Love Tonight".
• Show up on their doorstep even though they never gave you their address. When they open the door, shove cookies in their mouth and run away.
• When someone compliments you, drop to the floor and curl up your limbs in your very best dead spider impression.
• Make sure to turn your head and mumble a running side-commentary on everything you say...as you say it.
• Rate their sentences on a scale of 1-10 for how well they hold your interest, shouting numbers in response to everything.
• The best recovery for awkward pauses is belting ABBA songs, encouraging those around you to join in with eager eyebrow waggles.
• A handy little maneuver I like to call Interrupting Leapfrog™.
• There's also the unabridged version of that maneuver called Interrupting Leapfrog Body Guillotine™.
• Drop to the ground and crab-walk as fast as you can toward the object of your interest. Bonus points for sideways.
• Punctuate the end of phrases with air drum solos. If interrupted, pull a real drumstick from your pants and whip it at them.
• Finger puppets.
• Clothesline hot runners from the sidelines at marathons and 5Ks.
• Three (possible four?) words: delayed reaction spit-take.
• Attempt to close their eyelids with your fingertips while they're speaking to you. Or, just, whenever.
• In order to convey sophistication and maturity, you should speak to them at length with the infamous Peanuts' Adult wah-wah. 
• Paraphrase everything they say to an unseen entity in your bag or pocket addressed only as "Uncle Leonard."
• Follow the object of your interest around, narrating their actions and possibly suggesting pithy soundtrack choices where appropriate.
• Squirt whipped cream around your mouth and impress them with your best Old Yeller impersonation.