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Do Not Touch The Dreamer
Valse des Fleurs—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE RELEASEMan of the wild dance—of the mad reunion,let me dance with you, and whirl like you—until my shadows beat like wings about me...
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Hummingbird Heart
—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Anonymous Hummingbird Photos BURNING BRIGHT at the MastersFlamelike: the greens at Augusta National,young, muscled golfers driving long fairways,cocky, yet...
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Earth Work
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAMEADOW REMIXThis wasn’t really a Nisenan Village, they say—these replica cedar-bark tepees by ponds where we’ve come to read poems for Arts in Nature,...
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Dancing on the Line
—Poems by a.a.giannone, Cameron Park, CA—Anonymous PhotosCOMPLICATEDI have a habit of getting myselfin precarious situations,in dangerous places.I know my place, under the dealer’s arm.But I’ve got...
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Hallelujah!
Odd Jobe Art—Poems and Artwork by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CAThe gray skies of autumn. The tall sycamore.The winds and rains that send the leaves to us below,Leaves falling by the millions for days on...
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A Poet Was Here
Lawrence FerlinghettiPoet, Author, Translator, PlaywrightBookseller, PublisherPast Poet Laureate of San FranciscoWho Turned 100 Years of Age, 3/24/2019Happy Birthday, Lawrence! FOR LAWRENCE F.—Joseph...
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Mona Lisa's Mustache
—Photos by Caschwa, Sacramento, CAA FEW SHORTS IN LONG BEACH —CaschwaIn the first decade of my existence I rode on the Cyclone Racer right out over the water, before making an improbably sharp turn...
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Once More We'll Love
Encore—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE GRIEVANCEI go to the vast window with its scenery that falls away.I have no cat—even thoughbirds avoid my gaze and disappear.I hold the curtain...
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Waiting in Line for the Roller Coaster
—Poetry and Art by Norman J. Olson, Maplewood, MNwalking down Freemont Street at 7 a.m.on this cold February morning… the grayfloor looks deader than the corpse of the moon… only me and a Japanese...
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Bridges
Clarksville Clock—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAREFLECTIONS ON ICEAn old barn becomes a ziggurat—monument of something past—caught upside down on skating pond at warp-end of winter,...
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Cool and Sly
White Heron Walking—Poems and Visuals by Smith, Cleveland, OHSTATUS REPORT 292There's cool and there's slyand there's wrong and there's wryand there's whyHow I got from there to herefrom birth to...
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Moon Over the Pines
Full Blood-Moon at Sierra Nevada Mountains in Sequoia National Park—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Moon Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeBlack coffee, strong and rich. Poems by WS Merwin. Outside,...
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The Eye As Music
I Play the Words—Poem and Original Art by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CASPLASH, RIPPLE AND SOUNDLESSNESS Shall I do the trite thing,the bright thing,the right thing?Shall I rhymewith myself forever,or...
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That Love May Fill Our Lives
—Photos by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CAIT TAKES A PACK —Caschwa, Sacramento, CAQuiet night silent sunrise a little more sleep I am the first one up slip into the kitchen brew some coffee light up...
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A Jar of Dark
Bruising Winds—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAthe theatre of woe,where every soul isgathered into a billowingskirt of gloom—stricken facesstaring through the folds while thetortured...
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We Two, We Turkeys
—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Anonymous Photos ANCIENT MUSICMiddle-sized dull-gray songbird,perched for the morning on a branch,as if infused with the Lord’s own Word,your speech no shy reserve...
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Frenemies
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CARIDGE BETWEEN THE WATERSHe claimed the ridge as his birthplace— avowed he first came to earth therebetween two forks of the river, out of sightof...
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That Constant Shifting
Bitter Water Windmill—Poems by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CA—Photos by Chris MoonA WINDY STROLL Even now I feel the shifting connected togreen non-mown lawns and the routing and...
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Just This Moment
The U.C. Davis Arboretum—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeI went out at first light and gleanedThe final eight peaches from the tree.It had been a good peach season...
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Smoke
"Hear the Leaves?"—Anonymous PhotoALFONZO PREPARES TO GO OVER THE TOP—Rita Dove(Belleau Wood, 1917)“A soldier waits until he’s called—then moves ass and balls up, over, tearing twigs and crushed...
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