Poems

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  • Of Shine

    What makes it
  • Three Dances | Early Warning System

    In North Carolina
  • Ohio

    I will remember you in a Golden Corral after church on a Sunday.
  • A WOMAN I KNEW ATE FIRE FOR BREAKFAST

    And the light would tattoo itself across her mouth
  • A Brief Portfolio

    I remembered one day when I was new to that part of the city
  • Wuhan

    Utopia, or dystopia,
  • Elegy for a Landscaper

    The holes we find scraped out at the edge
  • Winter Landscape with Bird Trap

    Only sparrows fly down, crows wait in treetops.
  • Petrarch’s Poem 269, from Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, translated from Italian by Lee Harlin Bahan

    The high column and the green laurel
  • Four From Delos

    Saw the ring of her
  • Brothers

    Who eats with a jaw half-cranked with counterweight
  • Happy Hour

    I wasn’t supposed to touch the two glazed ceramic turtles