Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire by Brenda Hillman

Author:Brenda Hillman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2013-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

AS THE ROOTS PREPARE FOR LITERATURE

Sound, what is your muse? Just now,

we found a meaning but too soon—

cckkcckk … Dawn sprinklers start &

crickets wheel, they go down-down, dippy

down-down. Smell of toast in the suburbs.

The West is burning. Our little mother

prays in her sleep, our father rests

under his new big scar like America.

Ancestors step through flame to get to them.

Beyond air, the galaxies whirl ceaselessly

as picnic salt—

Our childhood sight

hath gathered multitudes … On streets

named for forts or saints, news is brought

to foreclosed houses. The medicated grasses wait.

In other deserts, soldiers kill other people’s

parents. Here the unemployed wear boots

in cafés near terrifying pies

piled high with cream. Wrens make nests

in cholla. Cylindropuntia fulgida. Spirits

stand round in the bodies of doves.

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