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Eating Life
James Lee Jobe—Poems and Capay Valley Photos by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CACall the pigs back from their mud bath. Call the milk cow back to the barn. Open all of the windows and all of the doors. Mama...
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Obsession with the Dogwood
—Poems and Photos by Jane Blue, Sacramento, CASUNDAY MORNINGA great wind shakes the Rose of Sharon.Then a red squirrel leaps out and all is still. The tree no longer laden with its lush hibiscus...
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Greater Misunderstandings
—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CA BETRAYAL—Wayne Russell She acted as if she was fallingever so softy in love with me. But when the sun peeked through thecracks in the bedroom blinds, I awoke to find...
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Come to the Hawk Land
Unicorn Dragon, Species Unknown—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAPALLWhat of the white pallor of the skythis day—this day without mercy—this dimensionless day—this white-fog morning.I test...
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One Day I Will Learn . . .
—Poems by JD DeHart, Chattanooga, TN—Anonymous Photos of Tennessee Wilderness THE FATE OF OUR FOREST HOMENo more battery to combatthe incessant growth of nature,encroaching on the old home.At one...
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Fairytale Princes
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA YERBA SANTACusp of equinox. We set out with our dogs; the coming season summoning its scents.Annual grasses dead and brittle as old paper. Only...
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The Choreography of Shadows
—Anonymous Photos—Poems by Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CASHADOW DANCERSFriends, there's the danceand, watch closely,shadows of the danceas instantaneous outlinesgo charismatic,shadows inventingtheir own...
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A Fine Morning . . .
Red tree with blue leaves—Poems and Photos by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CAA hummingbird, bright green, quite lovely,Appears out of nowhere, hovering,Watching me water the garden. A simple actThat...
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The Great Heart
—Anonymous Photo of the Human HeartTHE GREAT EXPLOSION—Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)The universe expands and contracts like a great heart.It is expanding, the farthest nebulaeRush with the speed of...
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A Plethora of Poems
—Anonymous PhotosFOUR CLEVELAND HAIKU—Michael Ceraolo, S. Euclid, OHCleveland Haiku #562Wet meadowbehind a park—hiding a rare plant* * *Cleveland Haiku #564Open field—some geese honk when I get close*...
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Welcome!
A Sky So Wide—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA REARRANGING LIGHTShe is a long way from time and home in a summer room with breeze-lifted curtains and lonely shadows. Bent to a task of...
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One Man's Truth
Drag —Poems and Photos by Michael A. Griffith, Hillsborough, NJHE TOOK A DRAG OF THE CITYSmoke drips off his cigarette as he tries to decide which way to walk.He decides instead to take a long...
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Remembering
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CABEYOND HOMESICKThe hearings are over on TV. My internet’s down. At the library I can catch wifi—don’t call it theft, I pay taxes. Just outside the...
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Lonely Stars Hanging With The Moon
Ahmad Al-Khatat, Montreal, Canada—Poems by Ahmad Al-KhatatDAUGHTER OF DEATHDaughter of death she inhaled darkness and exhaled the light of universeshe wears the colour of falland the skies become...
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Raise High the Glass of Dark Milk
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Anonymous Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeI am drinking the dark milk. I offer no defense against the razors of the sky Or that secret language of computers and...
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The Tenor of Life is Careful
—Anonymous PhotoSHAME—Richard Wilbur (1921-2017) It is a cramped little state with no foreign policy,Save to be thought inoffensive.The grammar of the languageHas never been fathomed, owing to the...
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Subsonic Murmurings
—Anonymous PhotosRAW POWER—Ian Copestick, Stoke on Trent, EnglandI was out earlierWalking my dogSuddenly I saw thatThe sky upon the Horizon had turnedTo a beautifulPeach/orange colourWhilst the rest of...
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Simple Hauntings Gone Astray
You're Confused—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE QUARRELERSWe come back from the madness to find the broken room with its lives—the screams flung back to corners with the...
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Tropical Forest With Apes And Snake (and other stuff, too)
Bouquet of Flowers With an Ivy Branch—Paintings by Henri Rousseau—Poetry by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CAEMILE: OR, ON EDUCATIONRousseau, your voice is penetrating, tart.Your heart a voracious void, you...
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All Things Ornery
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAOUT OF CONTROL an unruly sonnetOrnery is the word for ground-squirrels.They consume our garden, under-mine our fields and pebble-deck. Famished...
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