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It Is Good, This Life
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeCan you see nothing of the moon?Who is cooped up in their room day and night?A prisoner of the walls and of the ceiling?Is the...
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At This Table
—Anonymous PhotoPERHAPS THE WORLD ENDS HERE—Joyce HarjoThe world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has...
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Where Oh Where Is Buffy St. Marie?
—Anonymous PhotosOH! MEDUSA! MY DARLING, MEDUSA!—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAOh! Medusa!My darling, Medusa! My sizzlin'-hot babe From Tuscaloosa!I love you more nowThan I ever-ever used-ta!I love to...
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Where There's Smoke
Smoke Before Fire—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA BURNING INCENSE FROM CHINATOWNSo I am sitting hereon this chilly Fridayburning incense from Chinatown,trying not to turn the...
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Trusting the River
—Poems by Ann Wehrman, Sacramento, CA—Photos by Chris Feldman, Sacramento, CATHE BLUE HOURsoft as a lambswool boafuchsia clouds stream across blue sky that darkens each momentvision soars upward within...
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What Shall We Begin Today?
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CABLUE CORVID MISCHIEF Scrub Jay balances on deck support, bright & gayas blooming bougainvillea, though the calendar says November. Jay screams...
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This Chapter
—Painting by John Bennett—Poems by Jon Bennett, San Francisco, CA VERMINThey should bring back DDTthe city is full of verminroaches were hiding in the LED of my microwaveI popped out the lensthey...
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Letting In The Fresh Air
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeCalifornia is cold tonight, and it feels like my friends are all a thousand miles away. The clouds are full, it will rain before...
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The Bridge
—Anonymous PhotoA NOISELESS PATIENT SPIDER—Walt Whitman (1819-1892)A noiseless patient spider,I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,...
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Oysters, Woodchucks, Eagles
Woodchuck Inspects His/Her Toenails—Anonymous PhotosOYSTERS, BIRDS AND WOODCHUCKS—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAWe sheathed ourselvesIn oyster shellsAnd lived below the seasAnd learned to holdOnto our...
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Storm Building
The Plot Thickens—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CASTORM BUILDINGthe field full of blackbirds… wind roaring high…the long green grasses bending, full of rain…the...
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Time To Drive
—Poems by Neil Fullwood, Nottingham, England—Anonymous Bussery PhotosREAR END SWINGTo illustrate the importanceof the rear end swing check,one of the instructors set up in the yardthree traffic cones,...
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When All Else . . .
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CACAN PRAISE-WORDS SAVE US? Wildfire’s on the news, a galloping blaze consuming hills, homes, this field of horses. Red-glow daylight as it leaps and...
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There You Go
—Poetry by Linda Imbler, Wichita, KS—Photos Courtesy of Linda ImblerSUNDAY ROASTStop tearing your hairyou frightened child, young sad boy.Pressure cookermeal is the thing you smell,pressure cooker...
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Bucketful Of Hope
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Photos Courtesy of James Lee Jobe The sound of the wind. Tree branches rubbing together. Dried leaves blowing across the ground. Listen harder. From somewhere in...
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Rainbirds
—Anonymous Photo, Starlings in the RainGARDEN OF THE RAINBIRDS (from WT Webb, ‘Science Fantasy no. 47’) —Andrew Darlington, Osset, W. Yorkshire, England she paints me rain falls in heavy squalls, the...
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Going Full-Angel
—Anonymous Angels DON’T BUY THAT CAR!—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CADon’t buy a car for the tires.Don’t buy a car for the wheels.Don’t buy a car for how it looks.Don’t buy for how it feels.You might buy a...
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When The Voice Sings
Tiddlywinks—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CABELL DITTYpair a bellpare a bellparabletell truth without truthbell words are a knellknell , knellis to tella parabelletell it to...
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Starting With Dessert
—Poems by Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada—Anonymous Photos of Elliot LakeA BACHELOR OF THE ARTSA cool painting won’t let you glide through the trencheson ice skates,read nefarious...
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Good Oak
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAWARM IN DECEMBERI stoked the woodstove before bedtime;woke up before dawn. Black. Even my solar lamp had died overnight. Whole house dark,no glow from...
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