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Butterfly Dance
Red Tulips—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAA MONARCH BUTTERFLY FLUTTERING DOWNTHE LOW AFTERNOONA Monarch Butterfly—fluttering downthe low afternoonin a startle of orange...
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Love's Disrepair
Tintagel Village and Post Office, 1920Cornwall, England—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CACORDELIAAt Wilton, the Earl of Pembroke’s lordly house,a “Picture” of the extended family.No quick-frozen...
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Royal Magic
Carolers in Placerville—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CACHRISTMAS AT THE RAUHE HAUS based on Elihu Burritt’s “Christmas in Germany” (c. 1850)A home for homeless...
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Unreined, Dear
Angry Smith—Poems and Artwork by Smith, Cleveland, OHCOFFEE GROUNDChing ching ching goes the coffeeclang clang clang glows the flowcoffee in, coffee outstreaming yellow linewrite my name in nowThe...
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The Crop Is In
Poet and Rexroth—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeThe crop is in.Pick an ear of corn and open it.Inside is everything of the worldAnd of life and happiness.Sunshine...
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Refuge
—Anonymous Photo THE BELLS—Adam Zagajewski (b. 1945)We’ll take refuge in bells, in the swinging bells,in the peal, the air, the heart of ringing.We’ll take refuge in bells and we’ll floatover the earth...
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No More Unring A Bell . . .
—Anonymous PhotosMATER IRA FILIUM (part-song by Bax for double choir, 1921)—Tom Goff, Carmichael, CADevotion, for this pagan, comes easy and clear.What can his secret be? Look at the wordsbehind the...
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Go With Joy
Empathy—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CACROSS STITCHMy grandmother sings the blues to my mother in heaven. Lullabies. Hymns. Toneless and beautiful. How did they find each other? This is...
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A Pallet of Mixed Emotions
—Poems by Ahmad Al-Khatat, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaPAINTING YOUI will be painting you below the curious moon next to a pallet of mixed emotions with a brush full of feeling The truth is I am a sad tear...
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Bells In My Head
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAHOLY NIGHT WITH BELLSRemember when we were stuck in a snow-bank on the 4W road to the cow-camp. We couldn’t muscle the truck out— arms, shovel,...
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Crying on the Blue Line L
—Poems by John Grochalski, Brooklyn, NY—Anonymous Photos of the Chicago Blue Line Lthe ice cream manthe ice cream manis drunk on the avenuehe keeps walking past the ice cream shopwhere they serve...
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Open Your Heart
Hawaiian Crow—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Crow Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeA book of poems was left on my desk, The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan.In the dark before sunrise a wood...
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Change
—Photo by David Iribarne, Sacramento, CABURROW —Ann Wehrman, Sacramento, CAto move or not to move...look around at one main roompocket kitchen, bath, closet asideI’ve been ten years here, aloneit...
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Finishing Up 2018
—Anonymous PhotosAN AWKWARDNESS TO PHILOSOPHY—Michael H. Brownstein, Chicago, ILThe house on the third quadrant of MarsParallel to the polarities of EarthPerpendicular to the central strategies of...
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Starting Fresh
The Sky Filling With Blue—Poems and Original Art by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CANEW DAYThe sky, filling with blue, then a fragile cloud ortwo, threading. A sharpness of birdsong, penetrating the...
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Unflappable
—Poems by Carol Louise Moon, Sacramento, CA—Anonymous Photos of Hedgehogs, Bronze & OtherwiseBRONZE, THE HEDGEHOGDid I mention to youthe blue-green of the bluegrasshere in Kentucky?Did I remind...
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New Days
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAA NEW DAYSleeping dog and caton our bed early risingin a full moon mist—from dreaming of owl and doveI’m slow to turn on the lights.NEW YEAR...
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Arias of Love and Death
Alley Cats in Panama—Anonymous PhotosRECITATIVE—A.E. Stallings (b. 1968)Every night, we couldn’t sleep. Our upstairs neighbors had to keep Dropping something down the hall— A barbell or a bowling ball,...
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Blueberries of the Sun
—Poems and Photos by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA Time hasn't slowed my heartAnd so it is that I still lift my spiritUp to the blueberries of the sun.Even now, the light that blesses meIs also available...
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Change for the Better?
Alley Sign—Poem and Photos by Charles Mariano, Sacramento, CASIGN OF THE TIMES(Sacramento 2019)shouldn’t bother meafter all these yearsand it doesn’tnot really, but…before i saw this signon a recent...
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