I feel
slightly out of place
I do not know these people,
and to them I am only “Chris’s cousin”

They are kind
not rude at all
but I don’t seem to fit in

My Kentucky accent sticks out
and my salad feels suddenly out of place
amidst Dairy Queen and PB&Js

I do not know this place
the path is unfamiliar
and I have to follow the backs of 
the strangers with names
I can no longer remember

but when I look up in the sky,
the clouds and the moon,
I recognize them,

They have not forgotten me
no matter where I am,
the sky sits unchanged,
and I feel held in this unfamiliar place.