Poems

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  • Hapax Legomenon

    Literally “thing said once,
  • Two Poems

    I didn't know it then, but we were learning Italian...
  • The List

    Branches shiver as if a wand
  • Petrarch’s Poem 269, from Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, translated from Italian by Lee Harlin Bahan

    The high column and the green laurel
  • Sunflower

    Relapse my maze
  • Fallow Ground & Geometries of Exile (or)

    your washboard hands
  • A Sampler

    As you hold your breath, like a watchman waiting for sunrise. Let’s replace immediacy with a swift cataclysm, replace
  • Inauguration Day

    Yes, like thousands of joyful poets today
  • Mindfulness Training in La Jolla

    That summer of Pokémon-go,
  • Resumé

    Families shame you;
  • Yellowphant and Don’t Forget

    The circus so yellow and red stands on two feet,
  • cedar top goddesses from phil’s sawmill | ozark sonnet  

    The cedar goddesses lie down on saw-horses