S / Sarah Schweig

Sarah V. Schweig's poems have appeared in publications such as BOMB Magazine, Boston Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, TheThe Poetry Blog, Western Humanities Review, and Verse Daily, among others. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia University, where her manuscript was recipient of the David Craig Austin Memorial Award. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her Dream Song Stimulants of any kind become her. She glows. Miss S drinks coffee each morning, each evening. Between, though, she lags, calls it a case of the afternoons, citing Sartre— 3 o’clock is too early—& too late—to do anything you want to do. But she hates philosophy, the tweeded literati in all their intellect glitter. —Mr Wonderful tells her late at the all-night luncheonette that she owes nothing to those women—those aprons—behind the counter & that she looks good in red. Miss S late through Harlem goes home to the dark apartment of her soul. —Mr Wonderful doesn’t—what?—seem that wo