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Poems

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  • Three More Claims to Fame

    Claim to Fame #7 :  Early Boyfriend

  • The Book of Guests

    They gamboled toward me on the plain—two lambs

  • Checkerboard Mesa

    Dear mesa, dome of rock, do you remember your deep past?

  • Labyrinth (Lear)

    A poorly timed abdication. A madness

  • A WOMAN I KNEW ATE FIRE FOR BREAKFAST

    And the light would tattoo itself across her mouth

  • Valediction in Guatemala

    We say goodbye in front

  • White Gauze Curtains

    in them we see

  • February Elegy with Tulips on a Glass Table

    It’s the yellow dust inside the tulips.

  • Wartime Pantoum

    Were the mountain women sold as slaves

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

    The high column and the green laurel

  • A Brief Portfolio

    I meant to be talking of the huge cargo ship

  • Holy Day

    A holy day