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Pig Lipstick and Other Monday Morning Thoughts
—Winter Garden Photos by Caschwa, Sacramento, CAOLYMPIC FIRE AND ICE—Jennifer Fenn, Fresno, CASome say the world will end in fire, some in ice. —Robert FrostSnow blankets Seoul...
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The Brevity of Flowers
Night Sounds—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE WORLD IS MUCH TOO SLOW WITH WAKINGand there is the white moon hangingand a dark cat passing under,prissy-footed in a stubble-field,and a...
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Dandelion Moons
—Poems by Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CA—Anonymous Photos of Dandelion MoonsBORDER CROSSING*All the lost childrenwho trudge long and farfamilies fleeingviolence, gangs, rape,asylum begged for,mercy, just...
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The Brains of the Alley
Latches, the Latest Graham—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAREPLACEMENT CATLatches might have been a stray, a street-ruffian. Instead, he spent half his young life at the no-kill...
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The Fabric of the Day
—Poems by JD DeHart, Chattanooga, TN—Anonymous Drawings2018Gains and losses, this momentof looking backward, worriedthat, like Lot’s wife, I will be madesalt in a moment.A cold snap, the feeling of...
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The Poems Go On
Pablo the Parakeet, Enjoying Some Early Pink Floyd—Poems and Photos by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CAAfter a fine but somewhat late lunch On a summer’s afternoonI nap for a couple of hours With Blues...
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Bend Me Like A Bow
—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA OPEN CHANNELI awoke being pursuedDown a shadowed flightOf steel stairs, loudWith footsteps. My heartHolding terrible knowledgeIn fragile glass vials of...
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Twililght: The Magic Hour
—Anonymous PhotosTWILIGHT—Kevin Jones, Elk Grove, CASomewhereBetween theWistful pastelsOf a western sunsetAnd a raucous, bawdy,Too-early promiseOf sunrise, thoughNo one knows quiteWhere, lies...
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Leaning Our Shadows Together
Winter Doodles—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAPROVINGSilence.Dust of silence.Dust-light at the windows.Time flowing backward into time.Silence. Light cannot enter windows...
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Committing Poetry
—Poems by Marilyn Wallner, Carmichael, CA—Anonymous PhotosREFLECTIONS ON OLD AGE I no longer consult mirrors. They have nothing new to tell me. Oh, there’s no avoiding themwhen say, brushing teeth or...
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Home by Twilight
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CANEW STEPIt’s Senior Fitness Class. “Rock Around the Clock” is playing on Pandora. Dolly and Flo can’t quite manage the boot-camp cardioroutine...
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Hope's Possible
60 Pigeons—Poems and Photos by Smith, Cleveland, OHANTHROPOCENEDI was born in Dead Leaf Montanaraised near Brown Grass Gonemy momma loved walking the ridgesdaddy was the Devil's sonate insects in swamp...
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Empty and Still
Poet Trees—Poems and Photos by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CAPart of my way of being a person in the worldIs to say Good Morning to that first glimpse of lightIn the morning sky.Around me the earth still...
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The Dream That Flows Beside Me
Chief Coppa Hembo, 1816-1898—Anonymous PhotoPEACE ON THE DIVIDE—Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA I come to your patient meadow, brown in summer,boggy with springs this time of year,and I think of you,...
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All Alone
—Rainy Day Photos by Caschwa, Sacramento, CALOVE POEM—Ian Copestick, Stoke on Trent, EnglandLiving apart from you is likeBeing in prison, there is aConstant pain inside of myHead. Telling me that a...
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Wearing That Old Song
The Singleness of a Flower—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAPICTORIALa flurry of birdsa white fencea housean old road stretching by with no one on ita time of day not noted for this verse....
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Bards of the Thames
—Anonymous Photos of Her Majesty’s Swans on the Thames—Poems by Thomas Goff, Carmichael, CA SE OFFENDENDOIn Hamlet, vengeful-minded Danish princelooms over guilty poisoner at prayer.The kneeling king...
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Black Cats and Paper People
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAISLAND IN THE SNOWMorning dawned gray as twilit snow. No sun. No lights—power’s out. Oak trees weighted down by comforters of cold. Scrape the...
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Songs of Birds and Shadows
Bird of Prey—Photo by Chris Moon—Poems by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CAPALE YELLOWThere is a place in your childhood housewhere, among dust bunnies you foundthree things:1) a paperclip, only...
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That Man in the Mirror
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee Jobe ______________________Haibun, the Japanese form combining short prose and haiku, is a favorite of mine to read, especially those of...
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