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Restless in Time
Shasta Slope—Poems and Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CACLIMBING HILLSjust out of Burney, my ears popping,the road cuts through white layersof chalk. I am in the realmof ancient volcanos: Shasta,...
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Some Kind of Magic
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAKALEIDOSCOPEWe’re sitting at manual typewriters inside the gallery’s open door. Novembercold draft off the street. People come and go, no one asks...
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Fragments of Life
—Poems and Photos by Ann Christine Tabaka, Hockessin, DEKENYAThe dream becomes real before my eyes.Golden sunrise,blazing vermillion sunsets,lush green savannahs. I have witnessed all.Great Rift...
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Send Out the Call
Davis, CA—Rain—Poems and Photos by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CABring forth the silent, still surface of the lake at midnight,And bring forth the smell of the pines, the smell of dirt.Light the incense and...
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Visit of the Poets
“The silence of the meadowlark”—Anonymous Photo VISIT OF THE POETS—Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA Then come to usand we will give youmysterious breadsand honey,and we will give youfruit to peeland dates...
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The Color of the Day
—Photos by Caschwa, Sacramento, CATHE IMPORTANCE OF FINGERS AND PALMS—Michael Brownstein, Chicago, ILThey lived on the edge of the graveyardTheir yard lit by spirit lightTheir side door always...
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My Seven-Minded Horse
Garden Memories—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATENin the skylike a highpromise made of sunset andvoice of, say God, in His MostReligious Moment—shining therelike a private...
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Luminous Spirits
—Poems by Dah, Berkeley, CA—Anonymous Photos THE SPIRITUALITY OF A RAINBOWThe spirituality of a rainbow:a colorful thought from universal consciousnessmanifesting across the sky.The living colors of...
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The End of Beyond
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAONE WORD GETS ME STARTEDThis morning after rainevery footprint’s washed away but my dog catches scent—something on the wind or rising from earth—as...
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Still Ticking
—Poems by Michael Ceraolo, S. Euclid, OH—Anonymous Winter PhotosA BELATED, THREE-QUARTER-HEARTED APOLOGYIt was sometimeduring my senior year of high school,either late 1975or early 1976,I don't...
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Warm on a Cold Morning
Red Tailed Hawk, Capay Valley, CA—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee Jobe Warm on a cold morning, I have the blood of my fatherAnd the strength of my mother. A gray mistIn...
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The Mind in the Heart
—Anonymous PhotoTHE BIRTH OF WONDER—Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007)When I am able to pray with the mind in the heart, I am joyfully able to affirm the irrationality of Christmas.As I grow olderI get...
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Dog Vacations and Doughnut Holes
—Photo by Ann Privateer, Davis, CAKINDLY—Ann PrivateerIt's the first of the month At the end of the year People are thinkingAbout presentsAbout how to liveA good lifeAbout family and friends In the key...
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A Small Bridge Over Quietness
Compression—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHROUGH THE NARROWSAs you glide through the dark sleepof your lifea strange boat passes—slowly, slowly, through the dream.I had to say this. It...
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A Song to the Weavers
—Poems by Marchell Dyon, Chicago, IL—Anonymous Photos of African Quilts TO THE BLACK WEAVER WOMENA song to the sweet weavers, mother quiltersTheir love folds in every seamLet us celebrate themThese...
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What Kind of Ride Is This?
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAHERE IN THIS HOUSEit’s a rush. Latches in my lap at the laptop typing bbnnnbbbbbbv as kitty-poem, tickling my nose with black-kink tail as I pick...
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Ask Frank Stella
—Anonymous Photos—Poems by Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Lake Eliot, Ontario, CanadaSAM SAIDhe would be into work but he called in sickand left me hanging when I was really sickbut needed the moneywhich is a...
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How Could I Not?
Fence, El Dorado County—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeLi Po speaks when the wine is finished.“My mother dreamed of a huge white star Falling from the sky and I was...
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Bittersweet
—Anonymous PhotoBITTERSWEET CHRISTMAS (1943) —Dewell H. Byrd, Central Point, ORYesterday I saw a double rainbow arching overthe school house and I marveled at the way colordid not drain to each end. I...
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Waiting For Mother Sun
Grandfather Raven—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAI’ll never forget when I ate the ornaments on my family's Christmas tree At four years old, I ate the foil-covered chocolate bells Mom decorated...
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