The Bones

by David P. Miller

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This piece is part of our Winter 2022 print issue, available for purchase here.

David P. Miller

David P. Miller’s collection, Bend in the Stair, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in 2021. Sprawled Asleep was published by Nixes Mate Books in 2019. His poems have appeared in Meat for Tea, Denver Quarterly, Blue as an Orange, subTerrain, Muddy River Poetry Review, Constellations, Lily Poetry Review, and Nixes Mate Review, among others. His poem “Add One Father to Earth” was awarded an Honorable Mention by Robert Pinsky for the New England Poetry Club’s 2019 Samuel Washington Allen Prize competition. He lives with his wife, the visual artist Jane Wiley, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

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