Poems

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  • Fresco

    We stayed in a monastery cut up into condos, ours with a terrace of dried-up papery roses overlooking Fiesole.
  • A Brief Portfolio

    I said goodbye to a friend who left a hole filled
  • Dew Point

    Because of the nipple crust riming a girl’s
  • Snow Day, by Jerome Sala

    The camera in the other room points and clicks
  • The List

    Branches shiver as if a wand
  • Invocation

    I would like beamed to me from the Muse's tower high atop Parnassus
  • Petrarch’s Poem 269, from Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, translated from Italian by Lee Harlin Bahan

    The high column and the green laurel
  • Canary Island Date Palm, Love & Ink and Persephone

    Couldn’t say the dream I had last night.
  • Remembering Lethe

    Yesterday, a friend reached out:
  • At Arlington and Boys

    After the gunfire, the tact of “Taps.”
  • The World Provides

    Someone somewhere must always be
  • Obit

    At this beat-up plywood slab across the beat-up