Sky Blue Ice #colormyworld

The distant song of an ice cream truck

Bouncing inbetween apartment buildings

Children on their bicycles scurry to the friendly Turkish man in the window handing out shaved ice

Everyone's favored sweet treat

Scooped into cheap, white, paper cups

Soggy and flimsy

I step up to the truck

Chipped paint

Rust outlining the front fender

I slip my money onto the sticky ledge of the window.

"A sky blue please."

The nice Turkish man smiles at my 7 year old self

And gives me a cup of the popular flavor

What an odd flavor it was

How can something taste like the sky?

Did he taste the sky before?

I wondered.

I grasp the flimsy cup and spoon the sky blue ice in my mouth

Sweet, but no known distinct taste

Yet so free-spirited

So light

I walk with the other kids to the soccer field

Everyone finishing their treats with one hand

Pushing their bicycles with the other

We lay in the grass

We find pictures in the clouds

This is sky blue.

#colormyworld