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Michael Bazzett

Minus One

When I die the world will be nothing

minus one.

                And somewhere 

           among the crustal continents 

there will be another added 

          who has yet to know 

the rumble and glide 

             of skating over black ice

     holding cold water like a carapace

           buckling and groaning

into gunshots to find the more exact 

            shape to hold water

while snow 

                      dizzies the white sky.




Michael Bazzett’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, 32 Poems, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Best New Poets.  He is the author of The Unspoken Jokebook, recently published by Burning River Press, and his verse translation of the Popol Vuh is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two children.




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