by Mike White

We are all
waiting 

in your waiting
room

where the watchful fish
are never

and the good green plant
is never

where the magazines only
are called 

People

 

 

 

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Mike White is the author of the collections How to Make a Bird with Two Hands (Word Works, 2012) and Addendum to a Miracle (Waywiser, 2017). His work has appeared previously in Witness, and in other journals including Poetry, Ploughshares, Rattle, The Threepenny Review, and The Yale Review. He lives in Salt Lake City and teaches at the University of Utah.