In the frame, clashing

This page, which turns 7
today, is the same age I
was in this portrait, in
the frame in stripes be-
hind the celebrant, aged
11 that day. I was being
admitted to his party as
cake was being served to
classmates of his from a
boys' school in Califor-
nia, and I very well re-
member their exuberance.

At 7 years of this, I do
enjoy admission to soci-
ty and its revels, while
savoring my portion from
incongruous positioning.

Clashing sometimes, with
the foreground, with the
background, and tasting.

my brother