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Dancing Mid-Air
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAACROSS THE BYPASSWe take a turnoff out of sight and that dreadful shock of commuter traffic; highway bridge just a frame now for seemingly endless...
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What Lurks in the Shadows
—Bowls by Richard Billiet, Placerville, CA—Poems and Photos by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CAVELKOMMEN TARTOUMFive Russian men chatter in Russianat a restaurant table, gingham cloth,silverware and...
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If I Just Say Yes
—Poems and Photos by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CAOrange sun, pale, in a gray sky.Davis, California, in the big valley.The biting odor of burning wood.There is a forest fire about 100 miles away,North by...
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The Onomatopoeia of Flowers
Mary Oiver and palMARY OLIVER (1935-2019)—who wrote my favorite volume of poetry, The Leaf and the CloudShe will always be the onomatopoeia of flowers,the metaphor of fourteen-year old locusts and the...
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Bees, Trees and Their Knees
—Anonymous PhotosDISCLOSED —Caschwa, Sacramento, CAA cluster of hats is like a nest of eggs waiting to be hatched ‘neath protective legs angry, angry bird, bird sets free, sets free forbidden word the...
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Hats in the Wind
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAHAT IN THE WIND(after “The Death of the Hat” by Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning)Hat in the wind lifts like a laugh,dances itself away, while you chase...
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Paradigms for Paradigms
Evergreen—Photo by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CADON’T STOP WRITING PARADIGMS—Carol Louise MoonWhere could I wander?Stopsigns made of redwood.Where are pine tree leaves?Pine trees don’t have...
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Grab a Hat and Go!
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CATHE OLD PLACEThis evening, deer-brush lilac’s all in bloomso briefly fragrant, it could knock you down.A ridgetop breeze is sweeping its soft...
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Mabel, Fatty and the Law
Mabel Normand, 1892-1930—Anonymous Photos Today’s poems are by Michael Ceraolo, S, Euclid, OH, from his new project, Mabel: Selected Lifeography.LEAP YEARI was born in one,November 9, 1892,to be...
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Precious
Almond Blossoms, Yolo County—Poems and Photos by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CAEven our priests wear masks.A mask of a swanInside of a mask of a crow.We cannot believe that we are beautiful,So we wear these...
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Light-Bulb Moments
—Poems by Dah, Berkeley, CA—Photos by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CAfrom her "Wall" series A LIGHT-BULB MOMENTThis busyness in lifethis false confidenceWe feed off ofthings to doCruising timewe...
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Butterflies , Spider-Plants , and Other Forms of Sex
—Photos by Caschwa, Sacramento, CAJOHNSON’S LAKE, ILLINOIS —Kevin Jones, Elk Grove, CAState couldn't Open it as a park. They'd found Quicksand. Uncle Eddie Went to Check it out. Said it didn't Meet his...
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Like a Breathing
Sand Painting—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAON THE BEACH ALONE(Long Beach, CA, 1939)I am following the long stretch of shoreline; the sun is going down; strips of seaweed lie...
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Best Friends
Barkley and Poet—Poems and Photos by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CA FASTIDIOUSThe internet informs thatMiniature Pinschers are fastidious,obsessive/compulsive—a fact that bears out in my dog’s...
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Turkey Moon
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAMEMORY LANEAlley flowers bright against the dark unknown; hollyhocks and pansies. Beyond, walls with doors all closed, keyholes calling for a magic...
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All Hands on Deck!
Norman J. Olson, Maplewood, MN—Poems, Photos and Original Artwork by Norman J. Olson at Loew’s Hotel in Santa Monicaflunkies in white…pacific breeze coollike icemelting in a McDonald’s soda cup…a...
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The Memory of Stars
Tractor, near Ripon, CA —Poems and Photos by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CALike the green of the pine trees in the rain.Like finches outside the closed window.Or watching the moon wax larger,A little more...
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where is e.e. when we need him?
e.e. cummings, 1894-1962e. e. isn’t coming to your rescue—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAe. e. cummingsIsn’t comingTo your Poetic rescue.He’s not a muse to youNor would he likely Choose To be oneWhen you...
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Tax Day! Let the Rants Continue . . .
—Photos by Michelle Kunert, Sacramento, CATAXES—Michael J. Brownstein, Chicago, ILstanding in line to pay taxesthe weatherbeaten and strongwe saddle up against one wall of chairslean our way out the...
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Pilgrim
Arrival—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHOSE GRAY MIRAGESI take the loud map of time and follow it—the flat land-scapes—the edge of direction—the vertigo of distance.My old eye clears...
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