FAIRGROUND (OLD PHOTOGRAPH)
Given that the colors
must already be
imagined,
allow the mind’s eye
to erase
every last bobbing balloon,
and then subtract
the levitating strings.
Now keep
squarely in view
the clenched raised fists
of the stone-faced children.
ABOUT THE POET
Mike White is the author of two prize-winning collections: How to Make a
Bird with Two Hands (Word Works, 2012) and Addendum to a Miracle
(Waywiser, 2017). Individual poems have appeared in journals, including Poetry,
Ploughshares, The New Republic, The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa
Review, Copper Nickel, Rattle, and previously in Sugar House Review. Originally
from Canada, he now lives in Salt Lake City and teaches at the University of Utah.
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