summer's too warm to share a bed | liz chereskin & sara peck

Liz Chereskin's poems have appeared in Word for/Word, Yemassee, ILK, Whiskey Island, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, come with me to Des Moines was published by H_NGM_N in 2013 and manuscript, weather/report, was a semi-finalist in Sarabande's Kathryn A. Morton Prize.  She works for an animal advocacy organization in Chicago.      Sara Peck is the author of a chapbook, Yr Lad, Bob (Persistent Editions, 2013), and fifty percent of a book, Here You Are (Horseless Press, 2015) with poet Jared Joseph. She is in Charleston, SC.    ________________________________________________ Chicago – May 20th can’t explain types of sheets / throw blanket may seem weird right now but it’s light& morning / a sweat to hum up the AC before leaving it’s so easy to forget / for it to flip unfortunate electric magic / breakingcircuits & I apologizeall the time / sorry in reality nothing / keeps it going& the sun’s there of course & my triptych windows are all mine anyway so ok I’ve tried a few ti