Poems

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  • Toshno

    Marina is trying to describe Raskolnikov’s interior state
  • Canine Elegy

    All over town, dogs are lying down
  • Cry

    Bring back our dresses untorn
  • Chekhov’s Gun

    Atonement means nothing to a cook
  • Western Spinebill Sighting and the Absence of Tim

    Tim is at a Goethe Society lesson
  • The Water Returns

    The water returns. The pools teem with newborn fish.
  • My Surly Heart

    You don’t know what lives
  • I Can’t Tell If the Light Is Whispering “Loss” in My Ear or Imprinting Darkness on My Body

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

    The high column and the green laurel
  • On Lust

    I've outlived lust, or think I have.
  • Communion

    Yes, I will take home the meeting bread,
  • The World As Sound

    I didn’t speak until I was five