The dishes can wait. It is August, the evening has finally let go of the heat, and she is on the back step humming a tune nobody on the street can name. Somewhere in the second verse it stops being humming.
The porch light does not come on until the song is finished. The moths have made their peace with it.
She believes she only sings when no one is listening. The whole block is listening and not one of them minds. The church choir alto, the aunt who will not surrender the karaoke mic, these are her hours. The Tide Pool keeps the slow end of summer for her.
Soft on the skin, sovereign in the room. Mermaid Dayz prints it for the woman who has a mersona and a mortgage.
Golden hour by the water asks for one thing: a drink that stays cold through the whole show. This 12oz double-wall vacuum insulated tumbler is 18/8 stainless steel with a sliding lid that laughs off the splash from the cannonball nobody asked for, and a powder-coated finish that looks as good on the dock as it does in the cup holder on the way there. It keeps the rose cold, the coffee hot, and the mermaid on the outside bright. Mermaid Dayz made it for the woman who brings the snacks, the playlist, and the only tumbler anyone can find in the cooler. Sovereign, insulated, and always the last one packed.