Poets/Brenda Hillman

Brenda Hillman

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At sunrise the deer eat …

Brenda Hillman

—kept losing self control …

Brenda Hillman

We’d been squatting near the worms …

Brenda Hillman

Sometimes , when i'm …

Brenda Hillman

In a side booth at MacDonald’s before your music class …

Brenda Hillman

Each day the job gets up …

Brenda Hillman

A brenda is missing—where is she? …

Brenda Hillman

The last ice age had been caused by a wobble. …

Brenda Hillman

—Once more the poem woke me up, …

Brenda Hillman

The earth had wanted us all to itself. …

Brenda Hillman

We had a grief …

Brenda Hillman

We bury the sparrows of Europe …

Brenda Hillman

The labeled bins on the California hillside …

Brenda Hillman

Often visitors there, saddened …

Brenda Hillman

The shoe repairman works behind the married shoes, …

Brenda Hillman

I passed through nature …

Brenda Hillman

Having stopped using dolphins to locate explosives in the Cold War …

Brenda Hillman

The problem …

Brenda Hillman

I. …

Brenda Hillman

In movies when the hero is about to die, …

Brenda Hillman

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