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Because I always think it, I said.
Every time I see you is the first time.
He shrugged: That’s just how it works.
That is when I noticed his slight
resemblance to my father,
which also always happens.
Aren’t we ever going to stop?
I asked, suddenly aware
of the hurtling train.
He just looked at me.
That was when I knew.
Acknowledgments
32 Poems: “What Might”
10 x 3: “The Difficulty of Holding Time”
Beechers: “Imperfection”
Beloit Poetry Journal: “The Field Beyond the Wall”
Blackbird: “Aria,” “Manhood,” “The School”
The Chattahoochee Review: “Look, Overlook”
Denver Syntax: “Rather Than Read Another Word”
Forklift, Ohio: “Memory”
Green Mountains Review: “Binary,” “The Last Time I Saw God,” “from
A Natural History of Silence,” “Unspoken”
Guernica: “Oil and Ash”
Literary Imagination: “Elpenor”
The Literary Review: “Lions”
The Los Angeles Review: “The Book of ___________”
New Ohio Review: “The Professional”
Oxford Poetry: “Soirée”
The Paris-American: “A Woman Stands in a Field”
Phoebe: “The Dark Thing,” “How It Survived for a While”
Prairie Schooner: “In the Pasture Corner,” “The People Who Came
Afterward”
Rattle: “The Last Expedition”
Redivider: “The Orangutan”
Salamander: “After Machado”
Smartish Pace: “September Picnic”
Swarm: “The Horse”
Weber: “Now Here, Nowhere”
Whiskey Island: “Clockwatcher,” “Interrogation”
“Oil and Ash” and “September Picnic” previously appeared in the chapbook The Imaginary City (OW! Arts 2012).
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 chapbook The Imaginary City (OW! Arts 2012), and the winner of the Bechtel Prize from Teachers & Writers Collaborative. A longtime member of the faculty at The Blake School, Bazzett lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two children.
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and
THE LINDQUIST & VENNUM FOUNDATION
are pleased to announce the third award of
THE LINDQUIST & VENNUM PRIZE FOR POETRY
to
MICHAEL BAZZETT
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