Michael Bazzett Michael Bazzett is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Echo Chamber (2021). His work has appeared in Granta, The London Magazine, The American Poetry Review, The Sun, The Nation, and The Paris Review; his translation of the selected poems of Humberto Ak’abal, If Today Were Tomorrow, arrives from Milkweed in June 2024.

Go Look in the Closet, My Son Said | Poetry

Michael Bazzett

and I did and it was there, hunched beneath the coats, covered in hair, doing its best to look inconspicuous and it did indeed smell a bit like woodsmoke and iron, and I did see something that looked a bit like a talon draw closer into its body before melting away into the shagginess in much the same way the markings of a snake might simmer down into a pile...