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  • A Story about the Bees

    I still have the bees

  • St. Bonaventure and Spring Birthday Romance

    Merton’s last stop in the world

  • Licks

    We each were given three licks

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

    The high column and the green laurel

  • ON PAINTING THE SISTINE CHAPEL: MICHELANGELO TO GIOVANNI DA PISTOIA

    This damn job’s given me a goiter –

  • News from Nowhere

    The sea handles laundry

  • Value and Reverie

    The dog dreams on the rug

  • Five Poems

    Trembles on a wall,

  • Abbatoir Time

    The widower pushed the tailgate shut and fell.

  • The Definition of Postmodernism & If

    I was in David Lehman’s Modern Poetry class when I first heard the term “postmodernism.”

  • END OF LIFE DISCUSSION

    She speaks for him, her husband’s deepening

  • NIGHT SPIDER

    All day he waited, then