Wolf Intervals: Poems
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Graham Hillard
Graham Hillard is managing editor of the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal and instructor of creative writing at Trevecca Nazarene University. He is the founding editor of the Cumberland River Review; a regular contributor to the Washington Examiner, National Review, and other magazines; and the recipient of an individual artist fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission. He lives in Nashville with his wife, daughter, and son.
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Wolf Intervals - Graham Hillard
Wolf Intervals
Graham Hillard
Wolf Intervals
The Poiema Poetry Series
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2022
Graham Hillard. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers,
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paperback isbn: 978-1-6667-3174-3
hardcover isbn: 978-1-6667-2460-8
ebook isbn: 978-1-6667-2461-5
Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Names: Hillard, Graham.
Title: Wolf intervals / Graham Hillard.
Description: Eugene, OR: Cascade Books,
2022
| Series: The Poiema Poetry Series.
Identifiers:
isbn 978-1-6667-3174-3
(paperback) |
isbn 978-1-6667-2460-8
(hardcover) |
isbn 978-1-6667-2461-5
(ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Poetry. | American poetry—
21
st century.
Classification: PS
617
H
55
2022
(paperback) | PS
617
(ebook)
09/26/22
Table of Contents
Title Page
The Forest
I.
Well Temperament
David and Bathsheba Share a Cigarette
Mikhail Gorbachev Addresses an Auditorium of Southern Baptists
Theodicy
Benediction
Honeysuckle
Genealogy
Proverb
Ezekiel on the Somme
Christ Walks on the Adventure River Wave Pool
The Marine
Wolves
Class Outing, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Slaughterhouse Pond
Pope Calixtus III Excommunicates Halley’s Comet: Rome, 1456
The Other Thief
Elemental
Roman à Clef
II.
The High Branch
Paean (After George Peele)
After Reading ‘Reynard the Fox’
Snow Day
Grammar School: Janitor
At the National D-Day Memorial
The Timpanist
Morning Drop-Off
Proverb
After Flooding
Balletomane
The Censor
The Polygrapher
Manchineel
This
Body Found in Churchill Downs Barn
Lascaux
Grasses
Fires and Tents
III.
Sestina: Peach Tree
Lizard
Grammar School: Textbooks
Grammar School: Evolution
Boxwoods
Oil Painting, Artists’ Colony
Corner Studio, Artists’ Colony
Grammar School: Diagramming the Sentence
Minor Prophet
The Apostle Paul Extends a Metaphor
Wax Bullet
Conjunctivitis
Offering
Miniature Book Collection, Sweet Briar College
Proverb
Art Student
Watching Daybreak on the Savannah
Sunday Sermon
Patriotic Concert, Covenant Presbyterian Church
Acknowledgments
for Mary
Whither thou goest
The wolf made itself heard in the days of unequal temperament.
Frederick Niecks A Concise Dictionary of Musical Terms
The Poiema Poetry Series
Poems are windows into worlds; windows into beauty, goodness, and truth; windows into understandings that won’t twist themselves into tidy dogmatic statements; windows into experiences. We can do more than merely peer into such windows; with a little effort we can fling open the casements, and leap over the sills into the heart of these worlds. We are also led into familiar places of hurt, confusion, and disappointment, but we arrive in the poet’s company. Poetry is a partnership between poet and reader, seeking together to gain something of value—to get at something