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  • From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus / The Sonnets to Orpheus translated from German by John Rosenwald

    O fountain-mouth, you gift-giver, you mouth

  • One and a Half Poems

    Well it began with a microburst from the North when the moon

  • I Like to Tuck a Leaf

    of some bright hue, say burgundy mauve,

  • No Selfies For Mary & Pater Noster

    In the mausoleum shadow, eye-mopping mother, O Mary,

  • Petrarch’s Poem 269, from Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, translated from Italian by Lee Harlin Bahan

    The high column and the green laurel

  • Ancestral Home

    Frangipani, its petals warm milk around

  • The Age of the Onion

    The onion is a Book of Revelations, diced to proverb-size.

  • HER MOUTH

    Near the end, her mouth was pinned down

  • END OF LIFE DISCUSSION

    She speaks for him, her husband’s deepening

  • Handel in London, 1741

    Wedged in a chair near the open window,

  • The Cocoon, I Started Slowly & Morning’s Only Yellow

    Visiting my cousin’s church I found

  • Four a.m. and 40 Years Later

    Driving into my old city yesterday