Poems

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  • Unfinished Business

    Cleaning up, in the kitchen, she goes to wipe away a small black seed from the counter.
  • Petrarch’s Poem 269, from Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, translated from Italian by Lee Harlin Bahan

    The high column and the green laurel
  • Two Poems

    Sometimes the mist our mothers walk through
  • Still Life with Clouds and Eyes on the Prize

    Many white ones
  • SAY

    Says her Tarot reader says
  • A Flash of Lithe White Arms

    A flash of lithe white arms
  • Hymn of the Squirrels, Echidna Tremens and Singled Out

    Not an issue of ‘variety’, of red, brown, grey and black,
  • Little Torch

    First there was delight, delight in the windchimes,
  • The Bahá’í School

    It stood at the top of a steep hill that sloped all the way down to the Pisquataqua River, which even then I knew was tidal.
  • grief being a swatch of blue & grief being that song from childhood & grief being a pitched tent

    a rectangle in an unborn son’s room
  • Weather Report

    These white stripes of day achieve
  • Afterimage

    Do you remember those Cornell shadow boxes we saw at some