In the café with the small stage in the back, we
three women play music and sing and dance.
We sing to a Portishead song.
We play seven inch singles.
One of us goes to change the record and
it rolls under the table.
The side by side turntables become burners
so we stop singing and dancing and
make soup.
Soup
Elizabeth MacDuffie is founding editor Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, producer of the Meat for Teacast, and co-runner, with her husband, Mark Alan Miller, of Meat for Tea Press. She’s had work published in Silkworm, Thimble, The Hooghly Review, and in the 2025 and 2026 New Generation Beats Anthologies, among other places. She lives and works in Holyoke, MA.