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A lurch as the current shifts - Conrad Hilberry "Abandon"

A green itch of weeds - Conrad Hilberry "Abandon"

Creek dodging crooked rocks - Conrad Hilberry "Abandon"

Boots in the ashes of a wood fire - Conrad Hilberry "Abandon"

Hung on a bare-branched oak - Conrad Hilberry "Abandon"

A handful of memory left by the last glacier - Conrad Hilberry "Algae"

A dragonfly keeps coming back to the same dead twig - Conrad Hilberry "Angles"

Twisted vines on a shagbark tree - Conrad Hilberry "Angles"

Air reduced to polished bronze - Conrad Hilberry "A Bird"

Mocks the night wind's broken howl - Conrad Hilberry "A Bird"

Where old resentments roil - Conrad Hilberry "Blackout"

Handing back the mottled afternoon - Conrad Hilberry "Blood Work"

A sky of starlings circle - Conrad Hilberry "A Body in Between"

Like a ragged whirlwind settling - Conrad Hilberry "A Body Between"

The fractaled branches of three oaks - Conrad Hilberry "A Body Between"

Moved by some blue magnetism - Conrad Hilberry "A Body Between"

Whispers finding their way down and out - Conrad Hilberry "Bowl"

A city of swamps and celery - Conrad Hilberry "Causation"

A crossroads without a choice - Conrad Hilberry "The Chevron"

Let midnight gather up the wind - Conrad Hilberry "Christmas Night"

The wheel of gifts and grief - Conrad Hilberry "Christmas Night"

The petal of hibiscus that never blooms - Conrad Hilberry "Clue"

Even the bitterest rain can sink into sand - Conrad Hilberry "Clue"

Ready to slide in among the mermaids - Conrad Hilberry "A Clutch of Mammals"

Chewing the ends of time - Conrad Hilberry "A Clutch of Mammals"

Still loyal to the night - Conrad Hilberry "Cretan Dawn: A Metaphor"

Daring each other at dusk - Conrad Hilberry "Crete: The Diktaean Cave"

Except for candles and their faltering shadows - Conrad Hilberry "Crete: The Diktaean Cave"

The final room is fire - Conrad Hilberry "Crete: The Diktaean Cave"

The moon has seen too much to care - Conrad Hilberry "The Cur"

Still had an appetite for sacrifice - Conrad Hilberry "The Cur"

Through the fences of their teeth - Conrad Hilberry "The Cur"

As night itself picks the lock - Conrad Hilberry "The Cur"

A whirlwind dusting the windows - Conrad Hilberry "Danse Macabre"

Whatever follows the wild fires - Conrad Hilberry "Danse Macabre"

Holds breath in its hands - Conrad Hilberry "The Day of the First Draft Lottery"

The brittle boat abandoned - Conrad Hilberry "December 26"

Your neurons place their bets - Conrad Hilberry "A Dialogue Between the Body and Soul"

A stash of seed or mineral - Conrad Hilberry "A Dialogue Between the Body and Soul"

The neurons are immune to sin - Conrad Hilberry "A Dialogue Between the Body and Soul"

Griefs take shelter in the trees - Conrad Hilberry "A Dialogue Between the Body and Soul"

Mozart lets the chords fall in place - Conrad Hilberry "Divertimento 563"

Backing off for another stretch of melody - Conrad Hilberry "Divertimento 563"

A pair of sevens standing in the rain - Conrad Hilberry "The Double Flail or Double Hook"

In our dark geometry - Conrad Hilberry "The Double Flail or Double Hook"

Brand our house with angles - Conrad Hilberry "The Double Flail or Double Hook"

Stuck a finger in the eye of storms - Conrad Hilberry "Early Storm"

Turned on a lathe of light - Conrad Hilberry "Egg"

How absolute the absence - Conrad Hilberry "Egg"

Hoping never to open up the cupboard - Conrad Hilberry "Empty Plate"

A clamor for their lost cause - Conrad Hilberry "Exits"

The emptiness sits down and waits - Conrad Hilberry "Explosions at 4:00 A.M."

Cracks the shell of our sleep - Conrad Hilberry "Explosions at 4:00 A.M."

The trace of fear marks out our arteries - Conrad Hilberry "Explosions at 4:00 A.M."

An alphabet only the carp can read - Conrad Hilberry "The Facts"

Into those aisles of twisting snow - Conrad Hilberry "Finding the Way"

If going back was what we wanted - Conrad Hilberry "Finding the Way"

The steep water of your making - Conrad Hilberry "For Katharine, 1952-1961"

Blowing a calliope of promises - Conrad Hilberry "Four Kentucky Poems: Rivers"

Mountains kneel to drink - Conrad Hilberry "Four Kentucky Poems: Rust"

Emptiness reflected in a looking glass - Conrad Hilberry "The Frying Pan"

All the March air lacks - Conrad Hilberry "Garlic Mustard"

Nodding to my zeal - Conrad Hilberry "Garlic Mustard"

My seeds are sleeping there - Conrad Hilberry "Garlic Mustard"

Hear the insects' smooth roulette - Conrad Hilberry "Hunch"

Parceled out in sixteen-second afternoons - Conrad Hilberry "Hurtle"

I began as the Queen of Hearts - Conrad Hilberry "Jack of Spades"

An island pulling up its roots - Conrad Hilberry "Jack of Spades"

A forest of vertical strings - Conrad Hilberry "Julia Elsas, 'untitled 2009,' fabric, thread"

Fabric stitched to breath and words - Conrad Hilberry "Julia Elsas, 'untitled 2009,' fabric, thread"

Uncertain intervals hollow out the time - Conrad Hilberry "Junior Powell, Sand Gap, Kentucky, with a Borrowed Guitar"

A vacancy between drops of rain - Conrad Hilberry "Junior Powell, Sand Gap, Kentucky, with a Borrowed Guitar"

From mud where no one planted it - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"

A scrap of talk on the road - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"

November closing the store - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"

The sudden scarred face of the moon - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"

Sorting shadows long in the grass - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"

In March you are forgiven - Conrad Hilberry "Letter to the North"

Twist with the sweet of mangos - Conrad Hilberry "Letter to the North"

Our eyes enact their own seasons - Conrad Hilberry "Letter to the North"

Silences that hang like Spanish moss - Conrad Hilberry "Loping Road"

Like an urgent twist of smoke - Conrad Hilberry "Loping Road"

Holding that last rhyme off - Conrad Hilberry "Loping Road"

Spotting a fox in the orchard - Conrad Hilberry "Malachite"

Blue scraps in the eyes of the lost - Conrad Hilberry "Malachite"

Two starlings sail down the wind - Conrad Hilberry "March Birthday"

Above the crown of oak and elm - Conrad Hilberry "March Birthday"

Like vines in a baffling forest - Conrad Hilberry "Mario"

Faint drums and hungry insects - Conrad Hilberry "Mario"

Existing nowhere but in this sieve of memory - Conrad Hilberry "Memory"

Long story caught in his throat - Conrad Hilberry "Memory"

Chewing the edges of night - Conrad Hilberry "Midnight"

The wingless flight of streetlights headed south - Conrad Hilberry "Midnight"

Swim the midnight flux of dream - Conrad Hilberry "Midnight"

Wind in a thin body of dust - Conrad Hilberry "The Moon Seen as a Slice of Pineapple"

An ancestry of wood and wire - Conrad Hilberry "Mousetrap"

Their subtly colored chips of sound - Conrad Hilberry "Music"

To master this mosaic of air - Conrad Hilberry "Music"

Larger cadences call in the sea - Conrad Hilberry "Music"

Past the serpentine border of eels - Conrad Hilberry "Music"

That sweeps up dolphins and despair - Conrad Hilberry "Music"

Your zero with its circumference erased - Conrad Hilberry "Negative Space"

Joints and muscles trading their quiet gravity - Conrad Hilberry "Novelist at Night"

Feel the sad wind rising - Conrad Hilberry "Oboe"

Hear the muscled twist of grief - Conrad Hilberry "Oboe"

The hollow music of a long-held breath - Conrad Hilberry "Oboe"

The soul itself at season's end - Conrad Hilberry "Open"

Scattered down the unmarked trails - Conrad Hilberry "Open"

Some hermitage of flutes and fibers - Conrad Hilberry "Open"

Pulled through a marsh of years - Conrad Hilberry "Open"

Assertions going beyond the evidence - Conrad Hilberry "Paros in the Rain"

Blind except for the fireflies - Conrad Hilberry "Path to the Cabin"

A thread snipped out of the design - Conrad Hilberry "Pelican"

Letting your hunger ride a ten-foot span - Conrad Hilberry "Pelican"

Give itself to squirrels and roaches - Conrad Hilberry "Poker"

Motors that breathe oxygen and oil - Conrad Hilberry "Quatrain"

The dock and depot waiting - Conrad Hilberry "Quatrain"

Of bees and beetles practicing some slight of wing - Conrad Hilberry "Radiation"

Promising a crop of dust - Conrad Hilberry "Radiation"

Sadness sings half a tune - Conrad Hilberry "Sadness"

Watch the past blow by - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"

Where the future never thinks to look - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"

That once could empty out an hour - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"

Mackerel that school by millions - Conrad Hilberry "Schooled in the Open Sea"

No slow dance in the undertow - Conrad Hilberry "Scramble Competition Polygyny"

The beech breathes twigs of vapor - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"

My promises have cracked and dropped away - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"

A point of no dimension - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"

And sing for the cold seed - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"

Sell these bones to the sea - Conrad Hilberry "Sea"

The silence adding its six percent - Conrad Hilberry "Self-Portrait as Bank Teller"

Catching scraps of sunlight through the sycamores - Conrad Hilberry "Self-Portrait as Waterfall"

Held gravity in your hand - Conrad Hilberry "Self-Portrait as Waterfall"

A metaphor for what we leave unsaid - Conrad Hilberry "Silence"

Find its own sad rhymes - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"

Watching for a six-winged thought - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"

A knot of overlapping lines - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"

Merge with night like oil of bergamot - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"

The slow traffic of a gull - Conrad Hilberry "Sonnet Declining to Write Confessional Poems"

All the elements but fire - Conrad Hilberry "Spotted Sandpiper"

The math-prone leaves of every rhododendron - Conrad Hilberry "Subtract the Digits"

Watery epochs, breathing salt - Conrad Hilberry "The Surge"

Under the wingbeats of moths - Conrad Hilberry "Talk on the Porch"

The flight of griefs and exaltations - Conrad Hilberry "Talk on the Porch"

Words and the curl of numbers - Conrad Hilberry "A Thin Song for a Girl"

Words like a blur of blackbirds - Conrad Hilberry "A Thin Song for a Girl"

The dark is filling with toads - Conrad Hilberry "Toads"

Wildest bird in our hickory swamp - Conrad Hilberry "Vein and Muscle"

Knew the January sky - Conrad Hilberry "Villanelle for Marion"

Lose the path and watch Orion rise - Conrad Hilberry "Virginia Night"

The dipper spills its emptiness into my cup - Conrad Hilberry "Virginia Night"

Brew the juice to freshen memory - Conrad Hilberry "Virginia Night"

Inviting anything with wings - Conrad Hilberry "Vows"

When the first sleep staggers into dream - Conrad Hilberry "Waning Moon"

A thin dirge for your nation - Conrad Hilberry "Waning Moon"

For the end of something wild - Conrad Hilberry "Waning Moon"

With help from the wind - Conrad Hilberry "Waning Moon"

Lend you the crickets' cadence - Conrad Hilberry "Waning Moon"

Trailed its bitter breath over the desert - Conrad Hilberry "Wise Man"

Aspire to become the hypotenuse - Conrad Hilberry "Wise Man"

No abstract fires or vague births - Conrad Hilberry "Wise Man"

Handing you a knot of crimson blooms - Conrad Hilberry "With Esperanza on the Roof"

Nothing with a rim of salt - Conrad Hilberry "Zero"

My emptiness invites an echo - Conrad Hilberry "Zero"

A zero pencilled on nothing - Conrad Hilberry "Zero"

Zeros with their elbows linked - Conrad Hilberry "Zero"

The sweet conjunctions that astonish us - Conrad Hilberry "Zero"


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