rainmaker

in the slums of warring Harlem, in the fields of ambergrain
in the theatres of a dozen towns, marquees filled with plays
actors step onstage to leave behind the backstage jumble
	and seek instead a barnyard loft, a swaggering man,
		and impossible dreams.

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