Poems

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

    The high column and the green laurel
  • Dear Lucinda Williams and Dear Jules

    A power in proximity to terror, the lower middle-class sublime of a car’s back seat,
  • Vocal

    Outgrown, the prairie lot
  • The Day

    Day I didn’t blink and the day was gone.
  • The Water Returns

    The water returns. The pools teem with newborn fish.
  • Two Poems

    I thought I bought more soap
  • Widow

    You cannot consider yourself a widow just because the full moon has gone
  • Two Poems

    burdens are from 
  • Winter | Untitled

    Let this winter pass into another winter.
  • Three Ghazals

    When I woke in the night, I walked to the center of the dream.
  • Elegy

    The breeze this morning pulls on the surface of the bay
  • MISSA CORONA SPINEA Good Friday, Macomb County

    On one side of one dumpster