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  • The American Poetry Review

    TOWARD A UNIFIED THEORY

    Jan 01, 2022 2 minutes
    WAYNE MILLER

    THE CHILDREN

    Condemned to live

    inside the weather
    of our moods

    JOY

    What are you doing?

    Filling this bucket with water
    and dumping it into the water

    HISTORY

    They can’t excavate the amphitheater further

    because it extends backbeneath the houses

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