It’s 5am and Cristina’s doing the tango alone 
in Rich’s Minor Threat t-shirt with her red hair loose
and Rich, who looks more like a hacker than a drug dealer,
though I couldn’t tell you why, has the best stuff in Boston,
and here I am getting it free, feeling it slide up my nose,
feather through my body till my bones buzz as I wonder
who turned on that movie with Gerard Depardieu,
and even though Cristina told my ex I cheated on him,
and even though she crashed my car into a cab
when I told her she couldn’t borrow it in the first place,
she’s the only person I know who’s good in a bind,
like when I called, finally out of stuff, up for three days
and probably not going to graduate, she answered,
and now I’m pulling another bump as the sun draws
a streak of highlighter orange across Rich’s mom’s
defiled Persian rug, and Rich and Cristina start making out
and the room smells like incense and lo mein
and there’s a pigeon at the window fluffing
its iridescent feathers, waiting for the day’s sweet crumbs. 

Tara Kipnees' work has appeared in publications including decomP magazinE, Moon City Review, Salon, Sugar House Review, and Serving House Literary Journal. In 2016, her flash fiction was nominated for Queen’s Ferry Press Best of Small Fictions. Tara lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children. Since writing her first poem at seven (dedicated to the wild geese of Tamaques Park), words still give her the butterflies.

Delilah Miske is a painter and collage artist, herbalist, tarot reader, writer and farmer. Delilah currently lives in the small town where she grew up, Pottsville, Pennsylvania. She is represented by Deep Space gallery in Jersey City, New Jersey where she primarily shows her oil paintings.