warm days make me think of popsicles
and the funny way you fight an undertow 

when you’re walking –
dreams put themselves on offer 

and wait to see if you reach your hand,
taking even a tremor as a yes – 

yes, resize the wedding ring!
what is it about summer 

that it keeps playing the piano
long after you’ve told it to stop? 

it’s nine at night and the light
won’t stop finding a way 

to get under your skin 

Sarah Koenig lives in Seattle, WA. Her poetry has appeared in Barrow Street, PANK, the Bellevue Literary Review, the Bellingham Review, Cutbank, DIAGRAM, Sixth Finch, Poetry Northwest and Faultline, among several other journals.

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.