Bioluminescent Jellyfish

I loved you forever until I couldn’t,
but I’ll always remember the way you met me
at the dock, in the dark with Dr. Pepper
and Jim Beam, held the raft steady
and floated me into the sound,
plucking bioluminescent jellyfish from the water
and tossing them up like stars
you would have named for me.

And then:
the way you yelled at me
for smelling like your drunk mother.