Lisa Wells

Lisa Wells is a poet and essayist. Recent work appears in Third Coast, The Believer, Austin Review, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She’s the author of a chapbook, BEAST (Bedouin 2012) and Yeah. No. Totally., a book of essays (PDP 2011.) She holds an MFA from the Writers’ Workshop, and currently lives in Iowa City.

Lake Havasu

Detectives discovered a divot in the sapling
where the killer tested his garrote,
improvised from baling wire.

He’d been casting for necks when I stepped off
the bus this morning, moist towel of...