caffeine destiny spring 2008

Brenda Hillman Northern California Women We tune We tune we ginseng We client rubbing against us heel as high They serpentine We padlock the ten mists We eat military We eat the curly kale We eat the curly kitchen heel as high She Shasta She triangle train-track Shasta She Ishtar the set of roses be as high She waitress She finger to help We cubicle silicon They purification chanting hand as high She melting She Milton a thousand pages We lawyer the miners' lettuce They xerox the bruised motive She shoot some voicelet movie They Sacramento pinko They anger turning yellow You comrade turning yellow She cancer the ten mists hand as high You antiwar pneumonia We void the drowsy element She Ishtar the element until she die She puppet she paint the puppet puppet They dragon bookstore market They sip the twenty decaf Twenty spotty foxgloves occupy She dusky-footed woodrat She western flycatcher teacher Pwee-pwee She kisst Apollo honey We kiss Apollo honey i kiss Apollo honey till we die i driplet O driplet driplet O braised fog elderberry no slant slump She best equestrian surfer She persona knowna She park the tilden children She oak slug-shrinker diviner be as high We aspen flutter against us We deaf light rubbing against us They freeway rubbing against us She traintrack history alone She puff puff history home She cloud cloud cloud cloud passing through our hipbone Brenda Hillman is the author of three chapbooks and seven collections of poetry, all published by Wesleyan University Press, the most recent of which are Cascadia (2001) and Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005). With Patricia Dienstfrey, she edited The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood(Wesleyan, 2003). Hillman teaches at St. Mary's College where she is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry and works with CodePink, a social justice group against war.