Meara Levezow

Meara Levezow is a queer poet from Sheboygan, Wisconsin living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bluestem Magazine, The Inkwell Journal, and The Midwest Review, among others. She has worked in restaurants for over twenty years.

“Complete Darkness,” “The Light in a Corner Tavern” and “The Deep”

In the summer of 1998 I was a lantern-
fish, no
I mean waitress,
but all the same
the water was freezing cold
and the pressure was pulverizing.
yet (animals) somehow survive in this most
extreme environment
which was the Mucky Duck Shanty (bar and grill)