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Steve Price was born in Hudson, New York, and received a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from Arizona State University. He has won the O’Malley Prize for Fiction and was a finalist in Narrative’s Second Annual Poetry Contest. Price lives in Phoenix, where he teaches writing and yoga.

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Everything Bagel

by Steve Price
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Before your first bite, you hold it
under your nose
and close your eyes.
It’s like listening
to the snow falling
before sticking out your tongue.

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