April (cafe)
As I write this, I am in a cafe that just opened near Charlie’s apartment. He’s sitting across from me, listening back to a recording of his music performance from Friday. He can look incredibly stern. Reaches across the table for my hand to interrupt my typing, briefly rubs my left ring finger like a charm, and goes back to his task.
A few days ago, I was in this same coffee shop with Maria, and there was a baby named Spider. Straight up. The baby’s name was Spider. I think her parents are really subscribed to the Mad Max type outcome of climate change in the next few decades, at which point Spider will have the most appropriate name of anyone.
Jane Scheiber is a senior at Sarah Lawrence College from Lyme, Connecticut. In 2022, she was awarded the Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor Prize for her poem “Red,” and was a 2022 Jane Brinkley Fellow through the Poetry Society of New York. She was recently a Summer Editorial Lead for Milk Press and works as a Design Associate for PSNY. In her free time, you can find her watching robins doing robin activities, reading with her cat in her lap, or running off into rural New England.