Poem of the Week

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.

Everything Bagel

by Steve Price

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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