Having a Coke With You

A poem suffused with summer’s simple joys in time for the solstice

Today marks the summer solstice, and if there’s one piece of poetry that captures the spirit of summer’s simple joys, it’s Frank O’Hara’s Having A Coke With You. There’s a feeling of aliveness: how the background begins to blur as you fall in love, and how the real works of art in life live in human connections — as fleeting and feeling as they come.

Sending you a warm afternoon and a Coke,

Olivia