04/18/2012

Rain simmered
the lake –

all that water
into water

made me feel
hungry for words

which cannot
say what I

so readily hold
with empty hands.

BIO:

Michael Bazzett's poems have appeared in West Branch, Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poets, Green Mountains Review, DIAGRAM, and Guernica, among others, and his work was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. New poems are forthcoming in Carolina Quarterly, Pleiades, Smartish Pace and The Literary Review. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two children.
MORE POEMS:

11/07/2012
'Dinecos', Dario Jaramillo Agudelo


02/15/2012
'Brief History of Romanticism', Chad Davidson


01/27/2010
'untitled', Kimiko Hahn