Ezra Dan Feldman received his MFA from Cornell University, where he won the Corson-Browning Prize for Poetry. His poems have been anthologized in Poems about Horses, and his poem “The Arrogant Man” won Third Place in Narrative’s Second Annual Poetry Contest. Feldman lives in Ithaca, New York, where he works as a cook.


THIRD PLACE WINNER


The Arrogant Man

by Ezra Dan Feldman

He has mistaken a bathtub for a grave, a grave for a pothole.

He has run a rabbit to earth for its chattering.


In the kitchen he’s scalded his hands on a glass of ice water.
Where he lives, cold means cold.
People on couch
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