- Calling Things What They Are
Calling things what they areis harder than it looksbecause haunted by ghostssounds better than can’t stopdrinking and can’t stopdrinking is worse than broke—
yes, broke—
as in horses with tangledmanes thundering throughrough canyons until one iscut from the herd, roped, ledto a corral where it is fedand watered then gently broke— [End Page 163]
Michael Bazzett is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently You Must Remember This, which won the 2–14 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry. His translation of the Mayan creation epic, The Popol Vuh, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions.