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Zumba to a Pleiades!
Sebastopol Cemetery—Photo by Cynthia Linville, Sacramento DASTARDLY?—Janet Lar Rieu Pantoja, Woodinville, WA Daisies and dandelionsdecorate a grassy field.Dare we condemn such beauty?Do they not...
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Fire-Shadows
As Is Through Leaves—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoSMOKE IN THE AIRDid you see the sun thismorning, how roundand red in the charred tree, as if snagged and bleedingto deaththere . . ....
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Jobs—Who Needs 'Em?
BEST JOB EVER? MIKE’S BOTTLEHOUSENORTH MAIN STREET KEWANEE, ILLINOIS, 1969-1981Was my father’s liquor storeOther side of the tracks. Your motherTold you, yes? But you went thereAnyway. I know. I...
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On the Edge of Song
Curtain—Photo Enhancement by D.R. Wagner, Elk GroveUNCERTAIN—Marchell Dyon, Chicago You make me feel this way.An acrobat walking a tight rope;Barefooted, and in leotards.My way slippery and...
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An Expressionist Time
Burned Thicket in Diamond Springs—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisWHISPERS—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAConsumed by a workloadgoing postal at reflectionssince adolescenceas my wordsspread on mapsinterlacing...
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In the Service of Ideas
Interrupted—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Elk GroveCHACONNE RE-PURPOSEDAnd here, a landscape draggedOut into the middle of the room,Still forced to dwell below the followingClouds, the treasures of...
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A White Wing Beating High
Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013A Kite for Aibhín—Seamus HeaneyAfter 'L'Aquilone' by Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912) Air from another life and time and place, Pale blue heavenly air is supporting A white wing...
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The Back Row of a Neo-Flea Circus
Portland Elephant—Photo by Cynthia LinvilleIT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD TEA PARTY—Cynthia Linville, SacramentoLast night the Virgin Mary took me to Disneyland.It was 1971.Mary wore a white maxi dress and...
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The Long Effort of Listening
—Today's poems and pix by Joyce Odam, SacramentoAN OLD ASPIRATIONHold me, the way a poem holdswords, the way shadow holds light,the way anything lost is wanted.Let nothing aspire beyond its being,or...
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Orbs and Heavenly Bodies
Christine Easterly—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoBLOOMED—Christine Easterly, SacramentoMi hijo, you perfect me Nothing of you frightens meIn my wiser years,I have climbed mountains, turned...
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Wingtips & Sea Monkeys
Waterborne—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, Antioch IN THE DIM—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleDawn. We're walking up the swale,up landscape dragged out of what we meant for pasture. This is where the coyotes...
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Wishing I Were A Skylark
"Chalk It Up" Drawing, Sacramento, 2013—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoA LONE GULL—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAIndifferent to the seamy voice rises upwardto wave me onfathomed like a nimbuson the...
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Ridge of the Season
Learning to Speak—Photos and Poems by D.R. WagnerTHE SILENCEIt has a voice, you know. It can formWords and does, tossing them into the soulTo see the shapes they make, or calls to us of timeAnd how it...
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These Dreams
Some of Us Are Stars—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisJOY—D.R. Wagner, LockeJoy that follows music.Joy that waits for us when we walkAlone by ourselves of an afternoon.Joy that is brought by the newbornAs a...
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Life Without Warranties
Portland Hotel—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoAT THE SEAMUS HEANEY READING—Tom Goff, Carmichael We are going to hear Seamus Heaneythe poet. Meg Withers, Adam David Miller,Elise Peeples, Nora...
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Summer's Golden Weave
Pink Amid Soft Green—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoSICK OF SUMMERIf it be storm outsideand I inside am storm.and the sultry skyhangs grimly over the old summerwhat must I do with...
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Poet Meets Thoreau
—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisSEPTEMBER 11, 2013—Michael Cluff, Corona A dozen years agois hard to forgetas much as one may wantthem to be encoffinedin the steel and mortarof chosen avoidance.Yet,this is...
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The Past Is In These Boxes
Orchid—Photo by D.R. Wagner, LockeSTARTING THE DAY—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MASilence on an early sun leaving my bicyclea basket full of boxespage after page of poemsby the thousand-year elmfull of...
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Join Me—You'll Like It
Alice's New Glasses—Photo by Bill GainerLOOKING AT THE MOON ALONE—William S. Gainer, Grass ValleyHow much is lostbefore realizingthere’s no victory in being the lastto weep..._________________A...
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Packages Addressed to Yesterday
Shadow—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeREMEMBERING ETERNITYThis wisp of smoke has becomeSo fine it is almost impossibleTo see. Or perhaps it was never there.There are always too many things.They...
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