On the beach, north of both the cannabis field and driftwood hut

5 things you can see The dry sand The wet sand Mai Myself The joint we're sharing Larger rocks in the beach farther from the water Small chunks of driftwood Our campfire

4 things you can hear The waves crashing into the beach The slight popping and cracking of the joint Mai breathing next to me Seagulls in the distance The roaring of the campfire, fed with driftwood

3 things you can touch Mai's swimsuit The dry sand A skipping stone next to me The section of driftwood we are sitting on The joint we're sharing

2 things you can smell Cannabis, from the joint Sea salt The campfire cooking some meat

1 thing you can taste Mai, tastes like very thick skin



Semantics Analysis

Group, Use, Action, Properties, Location, Association

Mai

Group: person Use: companionship? Action: Mai is a person, she inherently controls her own actions Properties: Five feet eight inches tall, orcadragon body, rainbow hair that goes to her mid-back, wearing an orange bikini and has a hibiscus flower in her hair behind her left ear Location: anywhere in Ma Insa Association: friend, safety, kind, creative, clever, handles stress well

The joint

Group: thing, bit of paper containing finely ground cannabis Use: set the end on fire and inhale, the smoke from the joint helps to relieve stress and pain Action: will slowly burn itself out when smoked, inherently has no actions Properties: 3 inches long, 1 centimeter in diameter, off-white in color, the burning end is more black and has a red-hot glowing tip, light enough to hold between the fingers, dissipates heat well Location: In the hands of people using them or in a box staging to be used like that Association: peace, freedom, stress relief, pain relief, community, sharing

Wet sand

Group: Thing, many smaller things, but viscous enough as a group to be used as a building material Use: building material, compression aid, manufacturing Action: will slowly get dry and mostly maintain its shape, no inherent action otherwise Properties: extremely viscous, darker colored, sharp-feeling Location: on the beach, closer to the ocean Association: sandcastles, clamming, childhood, vacations