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Finding Them Marbles
—Photos by Caschwa, Sacramento, CAPRONOUNCEMENTS —Caschwahe goes around picking up other people’s lost marbles before they descend into the black hole and then, eager to show off his boundless...
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Black Lace, Veiled Shadow
Echo—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHREE BLACK CROWS IN A BARE PEAR TREEthis morning the crow, with its cold gray voice, cawed and cawed until the second crow came to the bare pear...
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Footprints
—Poems by Michael Lee Johnson, Itasca, IL—Photos Courtesy of Michael Lee JohnsonMICHELANGELO:PAINTER AND POET Michelangelowith steel ballsand a wire brushwishing he waswearing motorcycle...
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Star Power
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CACONSOLATION 5 a.m. by my cellphone. No radio alarm, no lights. PG&E warned us: Be Prepared. I’ve got my LED lantern, one bright point in a dark...
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Let There Be Light, Momma!
Aliensmith—A Poem by Smith and Lady of Cleveland, OH —Visuals by SmithGIVE ME SEVENStanding in an old shack storein MemphisI waited while the black proprietor sold a couple records to an old black...
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The Calm Sea of the Night
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeSomewhere, there is an oasis. Which way? I don't know. This way, that way, any way. Every direction leads to an endless wasteland of...
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The Fall Of An Acorn
—Anonymous PhotoPLEASANT SOUNDS—John Clare (1793-1864)The rustling of leaves under the feet in woods and under hedges;The crumpling of cat-ice and snow down wood-rides, narrow lanes...
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Mixed Bag On A Monday
—Anonymous Photos of Bunches of Bunches-o’-ThingsIN THE LAND OF MIXED MEANINGS —Caschwa, Sacramento, CAOpened up the dictionary for help with a definition, and all that was inside were flattened leaves...
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Time Is A Long Blue Shadow
Her Eyes—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAPSYCHIATRIC TECHNICIAN: HIS STORYNow his madwoman still is mad in her jail, scratching at eyes and sobbing, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry . ....
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Remembered
Sidewalk Over Water—Poems and Paintings by Douglas Polk, Kearney, NELOST CREEKAugust days seemed on fire,oven hot,the winds from the south,tar bubbles between the slabs of concrete,my friend and Iwould...
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Rooted in Dreams
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CADANCE AT THE SHADOW EDGE Sunday by the schoolyard Whoever put it here? Skeleton in a safety vest (fluorescent green) on patrol inside yellow caution...
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EIEIO
Autumn Trees —EIEIO Poetry From the Missouri Group, The Merry Bombadils,Courtesy of Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CA—Photos by Christopher MoonFADING AUTUMN —Teresa Klepac Ember of a sun amid faded...
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Dreams With Milk & Honey
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeDreams and trees, dreams with milk and honey. The scythe slicing through silk, through wheat, and through all unreasonable...
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Hauntings
—AnonymousTHE HAUNTER—Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)He does not think that I haunt here nightly: How shall I let him know That whither his fancy sets him wandering I, too, alertly go?—Hover and hover a few...
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Voices of Autumn
Snake & Jack —Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CAHEARD THAT —Caschwa, Sacramento, CAIs that the sound of squirrels on the roof, or some dry leaves shuffling? ah, squirrels don’t crackle when something...
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The Passion of the Leaves
As Seasons Come and GoAUTUMN PROMISESSoon autumn will find us trembling with joy,its cool relief—its heady promise,and thus, believed.Time is not wasting away,it is only lingering the longer for the...
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Giving Up The Ghosts
Medusa (1904)—Painting by Józef Mehoffer (1869-1946)—Poems by Bruce Hodder, Northampton, England—Additional Paintings by Douglas Polk, Kearney, NETO MEDUSA BECOMING HECATE AND OUR JAZ OF THE WATERI had...
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Phantoms of Imagination
That Spooky Latches!—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAGARDEN OF DEAD LEAVES She carries no tools to the hill, walking carefully finding foothold as she goes. Stone-stump-leaf- fall...
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Flawed, Yet Fabulous!
Six Sunflowers (1888)—Painting by Vincent van Gogh—Poems by Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CAVINCENT VAN GOGH1.It is written that van Goghin a frenzy to paintate paint in his foodturpentine tainted...
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Matching the Passion
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeMay I be merciful, and in doing so may I find mercy. May I share what I have, especially when there is not much to share, and in...
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