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Michael White

Poetry

Summer 2010

Out Back

By Michael White

I’m bent down, prying the bird bath basin up on edge, in order to roll it back uphill to its pedestal . . . Meanwhile, my homemade wind chimes clank. […]

Poetry

Summer 2005

Interim

By Michael White

The glass fogged over from outside—the view how many stories down to the courtyard where the purple flags of irises burn through the rain. There are bedrolls neatly stashed beneath […]