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Willing to be Dazzled
Three Lilies—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisTHE PONDS—Mary OliverEvery yearthe liliesare so perfectI can hardly believetheir lapped light crowdingthe black,mid-summer ponds.Nobody could count all of...
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Zero Apathy
Librarian Malcolm poses as Edgar Allan Poeat last Friday (the 13th)'s Poe Project Film Festivalat the Crest Theater, Sacramento—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoWHAT DOES NOT REMAIN WITHIN—Michael...
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Little Memory Boxes
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoBURNING INCENSE FROM CHINATOWNSo I am sitting hereon this chilly Fridayburning incense from Chinatown,trying not to turn the heater on.It will be hot...
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This Unexplored Galapagos
Road Trip—Photo by Ann Privateer TO THE FARTHEST REACHESof my propertystood an old redwood fence.I was young when it was new,set a vase of flowers therenext to the hors-d'oeuvrefor a garden party....
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Little Richard Still Kicks Ass
Bradley Mason Hamlin (and Nicky)HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION—Bradley Mason Hamlin, SacramentoThatshadowstanding in the corneryouknow the one,you don’t have tolie to meyou sawlightning crashingoutside...
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New-Seasoned Air
Full Harvest Moon—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisLIVING TO TELL—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAIt don't mean a thingif it ain't got that swing —Duke Ellington Buzzing along the Big Appleon my rented...
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The Serious Night
Deer—Art by Ho Yin Mok, DavisTHE HEART AND ITS MANSIONS—D.R. Wagner, LockeAnd plain the lips of flameLifted himself into the airAnd he could smell the burningThe forest took into its woodyBody and...
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The Winding of the Vine
Light Through Leaves—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisA CROWN OF AUTUMN LEAVES—Annie Finch For Mabon (fall equinox)Our voices pressfrom usand twinearound the year'sfermenting wineYellow fall roarsOver the...
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Carpe Diem, Carpe Florem
Jim Moose read at Sac. Poetry Centerlast Monday night, September 16, 2013.—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoSURVIVAL-NIGHT FABLES—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleAdd the Fox as a central character, he...
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Bittersweet
Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoBITTERSWEETThis dawn, the old mockingbird—I know he was an old birdfor his song was very rich and longmade of pure melancholyand mad joy in the same true...
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Rapunzel, Rapunzel
Noah Purifoy FoundationJoshua Tree, CA—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoON NOT HAVING TO RESCUE CECIL FROM FALLING OUT THE WINDOW ONCE AGAIN—Kevin Jones, Elk GroveI had a window office;He...
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One Hand Held Out
Dennis Schmitz, reading at Sac. Poetry Centerlast Monday, Sept. 22—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoRUSSIAN RIVER RESCUE—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAHere I am in Sonoma Countyby the Russian...
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Bouyant, Made of Moonlight
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoBACK FROM DYINGIt was not true—it was the way we floated through blue and heavy water all the way to death and back—almost too heavy to bear: the shadow...
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Speaking of Sporks
Be Davison Herrera, down for a visit from Oregon, read at Sac Poetry CenterMonday, Oct. 21.—Photo by Michelle Kunert, Sacramento IN MY TACKLE BOX I—Kevin Jones, Elk GroveJust a couple of turnsFrom...
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Setting Sail
Lures—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisKAFKAESQUE IMAGES—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAKafkaesque dream imagesso powerful here in my jeepafter I fish for answersto my nightmarein the copper lightof a less than...
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Like The Gazelle
—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoSISTER—Gabriela Mistral, 1889-1957Today I saw a woman plowing a furrow. Her hips are broad, like mine, for love, and she goes about her workbent over the earth.I...
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A Serious Thing
Flat River, Locke—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeSACRAMENTO VALLEYThe land is flat to the horizon.Oak trees, dark thoughts on the landscape,Seem only inches tall as they pour acrossThe golden...
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Viviparous
Hanging Lures—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisMOTHER TAUGHT HER DAUGHTERS TO FISH—Jane Blue, Sacramentoand mother taught us the wordviviparous, as we knelton the pier at Montereya drop line twistedaround...
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The Coming Season
—Photo by Ann PrivateerTRYING ON ROLES—Ann Privateer, Davisfor HalloweenI play the mother, father, child, the manyon this night of deceptionafter the day job's demandsand look to see who you will...
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Shadow-Stuff
—Poems and Photos by Joyce OdamSOMETHINGS / SOME THINGSWe wait for someone to ignite our loves. Why is this so? Are we nothing until another proves our worth? _______How can we answer what...
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