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Dreaming & Tall Tales
The Lost Umbrella—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CARAIN STORYIt was only a glimpse, a high window,a low light onand her shadow passing back and forth. .It was...
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Songs of Autumn
—Anonymous Photos of FallAUTUMN SONG—Dante Gabriel RossettiKnow'st thou not at the fall of the leaf How the heart feels a languid grief Laid on it for a covering, And how sleep seems a goodly thing In...
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Considering Ghosts
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAROAD CONGREGATION Circling shadows and a spiral-down of wings over two-lane to roadkill skunk fresh this very morning. The buzzards come, swooping;...
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Lamplight
—Poems and Photos by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CALONGSUFFERINGLet there be light—and there waslight—just like that, right afterLord spoke those words. And before?Logic tells me the mind...
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Like Diamonds
—Poems and Photos by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CAMountain woke up in the morning, alive with beings and sunshine. Tree stretched her leafy arms to the sky and blew a clear musical note into the air....
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The Artifact of Great Value
—Anonymous PhotoTHE COLOR OF MUD—Michael H. Brownstein, Jefferson City, MOIf we are to believe the Bible, all of us came from the dirt of the earth. Can this be why God created so many colors of mud?...
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The Persistence of Marmalade
Ballet Chicken—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CALATE PROFESSOR—Cynthia Linville, Lincoln, CA(Written for Dennis Schmitz, 1984) Nervous tension prickles through the air like static electricity....
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Teach Me, Winds ~
Philosophic Musing—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CASHALE DREAM … a wide rock road becoming narrow shale, slipping away under my footsteps, falling into canyons—at first I was driv-ing...
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Evening Songs
—Poems and Artwork by Norman J. Olson, Maplewood, MNEVENING SONGporcelain robot eyes cry real tears while the sky tears itself to shreds… red and black shadows walk across fading fields… lemon yellow...
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Lessons
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CATEACHING THE CROSSCUT What kind of father teaches his little girl to work one end of a two-man crosscut saw? A little girl who thinks it’s more fun...
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Five Elegies
—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Anonymous Figures of GoatsI. For Ingrid Staklis, 1934-2019 From the cold North you came through Customs warm, from savage bombardments barely missing: you, secluded...
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Where Is James?
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeDreaming through the deepest hours, then upAn hour before dawn to meditate and pray.I am not this body, I am not this flesh,I am the...
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Arriving Where We Started
—Anonymous Photofrom Quartet IV: LITTLE GIDDING—T.S. Eliot (1914-1965)We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the...
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Clipping Coupons & Sexual Freedom
—Photo by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CASTUMPS—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAI grew up as a stumpAfter my tree-self was cut down.In a forest of trees,They called me “shorty”Or “stumpy”.A stump is not a...
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Hide the Child
Alto Sax—Poems and Photos by Joyce ODam, Sacramento, CARED HAIRNatural redheads. Natural response. Mirrors confirm.All eyes go toward. Admire.Hair of fiery look.Audacity of self-assurance. Hair that...
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The Stranger
Louis Kasatkin (right) with the Mayor of Wakefield, Councillor Charlie Keith—Poems by Louis Kasatkin, Wakefield, W. Yorkshire, EnglandENCOUNTER WITH A STRANGERThe Stranger with the shabby overcoat and...
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Autumn's Garden
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAHABITAT SCHOOLYARDIn Autumn’s gardensummertime colors mutedand the dead unplucked.But come along, walk quiet,listen ~ stop ~ breathe-in lessons.THE...
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Itsy Bitsy and the Joker
—Poems and Photos by Michelle Kunert, Sacramento, CAAs I walked out leaving my parents’ place on Sunday evening to go back to my place down the street The neighbor’s cat, Itsy Bitsy, who likes me,...
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Fire and Time and Spells . . .
My Lemons. Not Yet Ripe.—Poems and Photos by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CAThe air is here to encase your lungs in love, and the earth exists so that you have a place to make your stand. Your skin is across...
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When Leaves Fall
—Anonymous Photo THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE—Jane BlueIt is October, dogwood and roses outside my window,my feet on my ottomanempire. The leaves of the dogwood soak up sunlike a pool of drying blood,...
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