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Showers, Sunlight, Showers
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Retro Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeMorning is hereAfter a long and empty nightAnd now I will be one with the truth.The wind will be the light from my eyesAnd...
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Dyspeptic and Broke
—Anonymous PhotoFOURTH OF JULY AT THE MALL—Kathy Kieth, Diamond Springs, CADone with illegal fireworks and greasy hotdogs, wehead down to the mall for All-American pizza and ice cream. At the neon...
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Stardust and Locusts
It’s later than you think…—Photos by Caschwa, Sacramento, CAARCHITECTURE LESSON —Caschwa In the company of flying stewardesses on the way to see flying buttresses holding together some old cathedrals...
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The Things We Keep in Drawers
An Un-Title-Ment—Poems and Original Art by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE FATEFUL MOONLIGHT (Celtic folklore)You hear a cry and sense a shadow : a falcon in the torn hands of a girl, as if one of them...
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Dust Devils & Crayon Suns
Driftwood Giraffes—Poems by Jennifer Fenn, Fresno, CA—Photos by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CACRAYON SUNS STILL SHINEMid-afternoon sun heats Sacramento,casting its rays into the windows of the...
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After the Fireworks
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA“SPIDERS COULD THEORETICALLY EAT EVERY HUMAN ON EARTH…” —headline in the Washington PostThe grand Sierra Dome—daddy-longlegs—is gone. On...
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What Lies Within?
Voices —Poems and Photos by Christopher Kildow Moon, Jacksonville, FLVOICESWhat lies within the deep recesses of our consciousness, that set the deepest blues and darkest reds, painting shapes of vivid...
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Sunrise in Rosewood
Crystal Creek Falls—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Waterfall Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeA fine and perfect sunrise, sweet as a tangerine. I took the sun from the sky and placed it in a lovely...
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To Joy
—Anonymous PhotoFOR JOY HARJO, OUR TURQUOISE MADONNA,AS NATIONAL POETESS—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CA for Joy Harjo, named US Poet Laureate, June, 2019Oh, Our turquoise-robed Madonna!I have seen you...
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How To Talk To Your Dog
—Photos from her “Picnic by the Pond” series by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CAWATCHING THE MORNING EVOLVE—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAI shall linger On this cornerA little longer,Waiting for...
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Dreams' White Soaring
Illusive—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAA COLLAGE OF LONGING: ANOTHER BLUE NUDEShe is untitled as usual. She is too blue for explanation,as if left between dances, or looking...
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Where is Your Whiteness Headed?
—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Anonymous Photos of EgretsURBAN EGRETseen above Palladio, in FolsomSo elegant your glide, the eye forgets.Where is your whiteness headed?Your from-above-gaze must...
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Otherguess Ways
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CACREATION BY FIRE for the female inmate firefightersPortable pump and chainsaw,axe and shovel, brush jacket and rescue coat—is she terrified,...
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Doing Time
Center of the Sun—Poems and Visuals by Smith, Cleveland, OHMZ. SISYPHUS BEGINSMondays wake with foggy feetto cups of coffee, pastries sweettrouble held in hurting headwe the living walk the dreadTo...
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Seasons of My Life
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee Jobe I have never been a farmer, but farmland feels welcoming to me, a green field under a golden sun, or corn stalks under a full...
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The Bath
—AnonymousBATH—Amy Lowell (1874-1925) The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus in the air. The sunshine pours in at the bath-room window and...
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Summer 2019, Cont.
—Anonymous PhotosSUMMER’S SOFT APPEAL—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CA Warming up the lake,Sunshine glows, Into the water,Hour after hour,Without a single break,Through a bright,...
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No Backward Look
Imaginings—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CADREAM COMPANIONSTraveling all night in a driverless car. Dim figures beside me. Strangers. Staring straight ahead. We are in a movie we watch....
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Handprints of Ghosts
Fountain of Light, “Chalk It Up” in Sacramento, 2017—Poems and Photos by Cynthia Linville, Lincoln, CATHE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTHWe sit at the edge of this fountainmourning the death of poetsWe gather up...
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Reality Poetry
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAOUT OF RANGE Every week, those summers, I’d drive up Iron Mountain to wilderness patrol. Years before internet and cell-phone. My dog loved running...
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