Belief
by Mike White
Flowers fitted
into the shape
of a cross.
Organ music
with no known point
of origin.
The arrangement
of his coarse hands
in the casket.
The too-white shirt.
The little touches
he taught us
you better believe
show up on the bill.
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This is a poem built up of fragments that I hope still manages to coalesce into a micro-narrative and, in some sense, a cameo portrait of an individual personality. That the personality in question is shown lying in a casket is rather typical of my work.
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MIKE WHITE is the author of How to Make a Bird with Two Hands (Word Works, 2012) and Addendum to a Miracle (Waywiser, 2017), winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.