“Sun Sneaks Through Leaves”

Published in Funicular, issue 16, Feb 2025

A poem by Katherine Koller in Funicular, placed in the section called “Don’t Give Yourself Bangs,” is “Sun Sneaks Through Leaves.” It recalls a moment when a photograph was taken of the speaker when she was a child, but focuses on how the realization that the photographer was the father of the child “filled [her] up like sun” later in life.