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Like Buddha's Breeze
—Poems by Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CA—Anonymous Photos ONE FOR STROLLINGStreet lightsand blazing neonon a rainy night in Nashvilleand San Francisco, city avenues a cornucopia of...
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Just Wait . . .
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAIS IT SPRING YET?8 eggs now in the wild turkey nest uncovered by chance, under a slash-pile on the hill’s backside. One egg added each day; soon the...
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Fracking the Flux
Sun Flare—Poems and Photos by Smith, Cleveland, OHFLUX TIMEIt's 4 in the morningthe soul darkness courtingfor flesh to come crawlingto new day's old yearningthe past half forgottenwith present...
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Thoughts Falling Like Raindrops
Rainy Sacramento—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee Jobe A stormy week here in the Sacramento Valley,Rain on and off, on and off.Above, in the high passes of the Sierra...
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In That Syrian Garden
EASTER HYMN—A.E. Housman (1859-1936)If in that Syrian garden, ages slain, You sleep, and know not you are dead in vain, Nor even in dreams behold how dark and bright Ascends in smoke and fire by day...
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Waving at the Crummy
—Anonymous Photos of the CircusBURDEN —Kevin Jones, Elk Grove, CA The circus train Pulled out. Grandfather stood In the smelly Lot and waved As the crummy, The caboose, passed. "Next time, Eddie, You...
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House of Burdens
Dust of Sunsets—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CALOSING TIMEIt was because this morning’s full white moon shone in the window and I happened to look and could not look away.It was the...
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Muses of Fire
—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Anonymous PhotosTHE NAME OF THE MONITORNorth Bloomfield, California, c. 1850The term for these rough breakers of tall hills,how strange. Called monitors, these tools...
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The Word Continues
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CADONKEY’S CHOICEIn the nature of beasts, a donkey broke free of his fences to forage fields and woodlots in a season of ice. Arriving in town, he was...
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Color Conspiracy
John Westling's Wind Chimes—Poems by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CA—Photo by Carol Louise MoonCOLOR CONSPIRACY One color sits therehaving gathered purple,orange, and gray:mauve, I...
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Sip Some Coffee, Write a Poem
Still Life With Hammer and Egg—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee Jobe A fog hangs over the flat farmland;While watching through my windowI can hear the sound of geese...
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True Hunger
—Anonymous Photos—Poems by W.S. Merwin (1927-2019)BREAD for Wendell BerryEach face in the street is a slice of breadwandering onsearchingsomewhere in the light the true hungerappears to be...
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Creaky Joints, Water Dreams, and Bigfoot
Nana with the Poet's Brother, Matt, and Smokey the Cat in 1963—Additional Garden Photos by Caschwa, Sacramento, CA I WAS BORN TO BE A GRANDMOTHER—Ann Wehrman, Sacramento, CAremembering summer visits...
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Diamond Birds
Invocation—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. . . all that...
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The World Underneath
A Saint's Book—Poems and Visuals by Jon Bennett, San Francisco, CAI’M LIKE JESUSI’m like Jesusexcept insteadof dying for your sinsI only mope aroundfor themAnd I’m notGod’s only sonI’m more likehis...
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How Bountiful!
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CASHYAt our edge of lawna doe—sonar-ears tuned todanger, eyes deer-wide—staring at me through window-glass just aiming my lens—gone.TOO QUICK TO...
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Batter Up!
—Poems by Michael Ceraolo, S. Euclid, OH—Anonymous Photos CASEY AT THE BAT: PITCHER’S VIEWThe outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day:My pitching had us up two with one inning more to...
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The Ghost in the Closet
No. Absolutely Not. —Poems and Photos by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CAThere is a ghost that sleeps in that closet, andThere is a creature that hides beneath this bed.The ghost lives for those tiny...
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Honoring Yom Hashoah
Promise Through Barbed Wire—Photo by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA—Poems by Michael Brownstein, Chicago, IL, in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah), May 2ndTHE DAY I FELL OFF THE CLIFFOne...
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Sometimes, A Little Popping
—Photos from San Francisco’s Pier 39 by Michelle Kunert, Sacramento, CAFROM A POET’S WELL-SOAKED SOUL ONTO A PAGE—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAI smear cascadeUpon a page.Whatever falls downFrom...
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