Mike White

NOAH

Only once they are ant-sized,
only once he has measured them

between thumb and forefinger, 
does he wave

and wave his callused hand
like a metronome

back toward the shrinking
human shore.

MIKE WHITE lives in Salt Lake City and teaches at the University of Utah. His second collection, Addendum to a Miracle (Waywiser, 2017), was awarded the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Yale Review.