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Today's poem is "The Taxidermist & the Cloud"

from Copper Nickel

Michael Bazzett's poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Oxford Poetry, Hayden's Ferry Review and Best New Poets. He is the winner of the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for his first full-length collection, You Must Remember This (Milkweed Editions, 2014).

Other poems by Michael Bazzett in Verse Daily:
August 22, 2013:   "Man" "burrows into his cave..."
August 21, 2012:   "The Body" "The body is a book and we the words. Footsteps..."
July 9, 2012:   "The Buzzard and Reversal" "That hooked beak..."

Books by Michael Bazzett:

Other poems on the web by Michael Bazzett:
Three poems
"The Last Expedition"
Five poems
"The Woods"
"Minus One"
"Actaeon"
"Elsewhere"
"The Burro"
"Couched"
"In the Capital"
Three poems
Two poems
"Chain Store"
"Fourteen Lines about Sunflowers"
"The Usefulness of Marriage"
Three poems
"Wasp in March"
"Nine Possible Observations to Consider"
"Theft"
"The Disintegrated Man"
"Expiration Date"
"Rain"
"Lying in a Hammock"
"Things No One Expected To Be True Until Viewing the Film"

Michael Bazzett on Twitter.

About Copper Nickel:

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Other poems by Copper Nickel in Verse Daily:
July 29 2015:   "Animal Space" by Sarah Rose Nordgren
July 28 2015:   "koalas" by Jan Wagner (tr. David Keplinger)
July 27 2015:   "I Also Do Impressions" by D.A. Powell
January 31, 2013:   "Audubon Ate His Birds" by Kristin Robertson
January 28, 2013:   "As Vivien As Blanche" by Mark Anthony Cayanan
January 26, 2013:   "Landscape After Years With Yourself, West Texas" by Shamala Gallagher
March 24, 2012:   "Lungful" by Brian D. Morrison
March 22, 2012:   "The Decorator Crab," by Sarah Giragosian
March 21, 2012:   "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" by Rick Bursky
December 2, 2011:   "A Report" by Steve Langan
March 14, 2011:   "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms" by Anna Journey
November 29, 2010:   "Thirst" by Jennie Wrisley
November 26, 2010:   "Lobster" by Matthew Minicucci
February 28, 2010:   "A Whipsaw Takes Two Men" by Patricia Lockwood
February 25, 2010:   "Blót" by A. E. Watkins
February 20, 2010:   "Contrast" by Jericho Brown
February 16, 2010:   "No Narrative" by A. E. Watkins
November 11, 2009:   "Wedding Piñata" by James Hoch
November 10, 2009:   "Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" by John Estes
November 8, 2009:   "Evasion of Privacy" by Jordan Davis
November 6, 2009:   "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds" by Sandy Longhorn

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