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The Verticality of Trees
—Anonymous PhotoVERTICAL—Linda Pastan, 1932Perhaps the purposeof leaves is to concealthe verticalityof treeswhich we noticein Decemberas if for the first time:row after rowof dark formsyearning...
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Death Changes Everything!
—Photos of Chalk It Up 2018 by Michelle Kunert, Sacramento, CACANDY CORN—JEANS—MOTORCYCLES & OCCASIONAL NUCLEAR MISSLE—Rhony Bhopla, Sacramento, CABigotry finds its place on the...
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Green Secrets
Hush—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA(with a guest appearance by Robin Gale Odam)TO THE BIRD BY THE TREEPigeon? Dove? I’m not sure. You do not move nor seem afraid of me when...
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Finding Borges
Len Germinara—Poetry by Len Germinara, Elk Grove, CA—Anonymous Haircut Visuals JOE AND MADGE Drink coffee and a plan for the dayDiscussed over scrambled invectivesMuch the same asSo many of today’s...
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Black Bart and the Tommyknockers
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CALABOR DAY WEEKEND, THE STAMP MILL Saturday at Gold Bug ParkThey said Black Bart would be here in person,his tales of the gentleman-bandit getting...
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A Thousand Butterflies
—Anonymous Butterfly Photos—Poems by Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAA THOUSAND BUTTERFLIES ON YOUR SKINA thousand butterflies On your skin! Two thousand tiny feet Fluttering wings’ wind, Tingling! The touch...
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Take What You Need
At Work in Sacramento—Anonymous PhotoSit at this desk and consider eternity. The measureOf it. Its shape and scent. Its presence. Outside,There is rain, grayness, low clouds. Fat drops slapThe window....
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The Scent of Opinions
—Anonymous PhotoOPINIONS—Alan Britt, Reisterstown, MD 1.Some opinions are based upon the presumptionthat this life is better than the one beyond. 2.Well....perhaps.But we’ll need a silk...
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A Moo of Optimism
—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CATHE WHALE IN THE SKY—JD DeHart, Chattanooga, TNTo live in a world wherethe pale pearl of a cloud mightbe filled with the shadow presenceof a whale,swimming through the...
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Love Against Love
Love—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CACOBWEBYou’ve hung there for years. You have become my favorite design, the way you drape across the corner, like an awning,the way your spider has...
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Snap, Crackle and Pop!
Lily Leaf—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAPROGRAM NOTES—Jeanine Stevens, Sacramento, CAGood morning snap, crackle and pop!How many scoops pulped for your ranting bowl?Wear you ruby slippers in a...
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Spirit Lifting
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAAPPROACHING FALL a found poem What blows up and away? a flurry of leaves blinding fish,arrows in the forest. Wind & the rain ladder, pine...
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Used Ego for Rent
Leafalive—Poems and Visuals by Smith, Cleveland, OHSTATUS REPORT 274I hear stupid's too stupidto know it's stupidand I see stupid in the mirror sometimesand wonder if I'm too stupidto see him more...
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On the Sling of the Moment
—Poems and Photos by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CAWe have slept on the colored stones at the greenRiver’s edge since time itself first slept with those dreamsOf clouds and flying and the song of...
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Endurance
Ian and PalA STROKE OF GENIUS—Ian Copestick, Stoke on Trent, England Aged 33 I had a strokeI like to say it was a stroke of geniusBut, no, that's just my little jokeAnd there was nothing funny about...
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Dear Titanic
—Photos by Caschwa, Sacramento, CADEAR TITANIC—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CADear Titanic,I loved youSince beforeYou were born!I loved youBefore you were tornBy an icebergI sent your way,To punish Those...
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Writing in the Color of Now
Blush—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAMORNING SOUNDS AND COLORSMauve-gray of pre-dawn just after night’s blue rain. Winds of no color break through the night, sending the dark green trees...
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Is There A Word For It?
—Anonymous Photos—Poems by Neil Fulwood, Nottingham, UKSO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE F— At the end of the known universeare three portals. The firstopens to a spiral staircasethat corkscrews...
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Ephemera
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAWAITING FOR FALLChitter of ground-squirrel taunting.Rattle of dead leaves on the oleander.My dog pads the deck sniffing crevicesfor what’s alive.Just...
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Embracing the Anaconda Rain
—Poems by Alan Britt, Reisterstown, MD—Anonymous Photos BILL . . . OR IS IT ZEN?(For Tommy King, William Blake, & Walt Whitman)Boar whiskers taste like afterthoughts.Oil the way it mimics...
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