Poems

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

    The high column and the green laurel
  • My Fjord | Someone Else’s Someone Else

    I will sail through my own fjord and I will name the fjord My Fjord.
  • The Birthday Ceremony

    Seventeen rooms of long maroon
  • Some Answers

    No, I will not change.
  • The Park from Above

    What scared them? Scores of wild green parrots
  • FREE VERSE

    Small woods upon an incline
  • My Lovely Garonne

    Because every tenth poem or so the poet described
  • Coattails

    When I was eighteen, I wanted to write a screenplay based on my father’s life: from his birth in poverty, how his family gathered around one scant meal a day of potatoes and onions
  • MASEFIELD IN PURGATORY | YOUR BROTHER’S FACE

    Falls and stays flemished,
  • Cold Front Coming

    A crescent moon
  • What’s Real? | Is Nothing Sacred Anymore?

    This question didn’t much interest me
  • Five Orgasms after reading Lydia Davis

    You are sleeping beside me, but I can’t sleep, not in this roadside hotel smelling of new carpet and cigarettes. It’s late.