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WAITING by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THERE ARE NO CALLS FROM THE OUTSIDE
Last Line: NEVER WERE ANY ENEMIES.
Subject(s): WAITING;
There are no calls from the outside.
Miracles are the perversity of literature.
We should know that by now.
Only that these never-revealed connections of things
lead us oddly on. Caesar's legions
entering Greenland's ice, the scout far in front
wanting to do battle where there are
no enemies,
never were any enemies.



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