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High Summer and the Bumblebees
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAOUR RIVER GATHERINGSomewhere higher in this meadowthe North Fork begins: spring and trickle,snowmelt finding its flow. Last winter’s snow almost gone....
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Dark Questionables
Four Fates—Poems and Visuals by Smith, Cleveland, OHSATAN'S APPLESitting on a sinkholemaking out a listknowing Satan's apple falls not far from thishoping good and evil goads medieval salvage setting...
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Life Into Language
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee Jobe Driving across Yolo County, California, in the pouring rain, running an errand. Passing hundreds of telephone poles, lined up like...
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Healing Without Words
Steamed Baby Geoduck Clams w/Garlic—Poems by Ann Wehrman, Sacramento, CA—Anonymous PhotosCOOKING FOR THE FISH COMPANY AS A VOLUNTEER MISSIONARY WHEN A FISH IS NOT A FISH geoduck clam, sashimi velvety...
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Like Kites in the Breeze
—Anonymous PhotosUNDER THE HOUSE—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAUnder the houseIs an Indian burial ground.No kidding!Up they come on HalloweenTo barbeque some corn.If you squint just rightIn the...
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Longing For Blue Rain
Artistry—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE OLD LOVERS AT SUNSETThe old lover faces into the sunlight and sees his old lover inlast silhouette, and thinks how this blindness fastens...
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Graverobbing & Other Burglary
“Bird”-lary with a Teacup—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Anonymous Photos and ArtworkRED CROSSWALKOn affluent Fair Oaks Boulevard,they’ve painted the space inside crosswalks deep red.Will the rich...
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August Songs
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAAUGUST SONG (a Roundel)A single leaf has fallen from the oak still green, sighing summer’s recitatif in morning breeze. The shifting sun awoke a...
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Mariners & Panda-Cousins
—Poems and Photos by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CA SHE CALLS HIM ANCIENT MARINERHe was kneeling over,back bones protruding throughhis T-shirt, his feet foldedat the ankles, his armsintently...
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Welcome to Morning!
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos of Anza Borrego State Park courtesy of James Lee Jobe Welcome to morning, blessed by light, blessed by the songs of birds, blessed by the love of families...
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Remember
—AnonymousREMEMBER—Joe Harjo, US Poet LaureateRemember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star's stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. Remember the sun's birth at dawn, that is...
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Devil's Chocolate!
—Photos of Ancil Hoffman Park by Caschwa, Sacramento, CASANDCASTLES ON THE STRIPMINE. BEACH —Kevin Jones, Elk Grove, CA Looked like Castle Black Or Jabba The Hutt's place, Never pretty, but Sturdy....
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The Word in the Sand
Motivation —Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAGOALSI have been looking for the castle.It was on this polished landscape.It shone on the sky for dayswhile I traveled toward it.Then I came to...
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Adrift on a Breeze
—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Anonymous Photos of Yellow SwallowtailsCOLLEGE SCENE, MIDSUMMERMorning gasoline-smells: the mowers,each cutting wheeled machine, men mounted atop,glide over walkways,...
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Dewdrops and Sand Castles
Frog (Can you see it?)—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CASTOWAWAYSEvery afternoonI check my rag-mop hung outto dry—frogs today?August: our creek doesn’t flow.Tiny frogs must be...
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Like a Forest of Rain
—Poems by Michael H. Brownstein, Jefferson City, MO—Anonymous Photos THE RED TIDE OFF THE GULF OF MEXICO, FLORIDAThe colors of the oceanturquoise with bits of pickled sky blue,and a blend of grape...
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Between Two Seconds
—Poems and Photos by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CAMidnight again, moonlight and wind. I cannot put down the poems of Miyazawa Kenji and Ilya Kaminsky. I keep reading on into the night. Then my own...
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Praying For Opened Doors
—Anonymous Movie StillWRITER’S BLOCK—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAHe could not write....A ............Word.There, he did it!Finally.He could not join it to “Cannot be heard”But then into a spasm Went...
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Coprolites and a Few Other Ghosts
—Photos of William Land Park by Caschwa, Sacramento, CAIN DARKNESS, TO DARKNESS, BRIGHT—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAThere is only Shadow here, And light,When I Reach for you,In the night.The needI feel...
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Soft Shadows of Delusion
Counting—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAAN OLD SUMMERI am in my tiny sailboat onthe small pond—one among many such sailors—up to our knees—guiding our boats carefully, that we not bump...
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