Megan Fernandes Megan Fernandes has been published in The New Yorker, the New England Review, Ploughshares, and The Nation, among others. Her third book of poetry, I Do Everything I’m Told, is forthcoming with Tin House in June 2023. She lives in New York.

Dinner with Jack | Poetry

Megan Fernandes

  A couple goes scuba diving and by accident, gets left behind in the water. The boat roars off. And there they float, in full gear and disbelief, tanks low on air, stranded in a seamless blue, deciding if they can survive until the next day, which, of course, they cannot, because the average person can only tread four hours without a life jacket. The couple bickers: Why did we...