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Happy New Year!
—Photo Courtesy of Public Domain(Note poetry at the right side.)HAPPY NOWRUZ—Anu ShabuI wish you all Happy NowruzIranian New Year DayPersian New Year day Parsi New Year Day Kurdish National...
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A Mass of Mess
—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAVIRUS 19—Michael H. Brownstein, Jefferson City, MO There is no element of surprise with a quarantine,No understudy to take your place,Masks...
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Sheltering Moments
Alikeness—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAWHY I HAVE CALLED YOU HEREI am what sings here at the mouth of the cave. I own the darkness. My pure memory reminds me of light.I am vague as a...
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Tempestuous Tempests
Skaidra Rita Zvaigzne—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CASKAIDRA (2005-2020)Seeing you now slink through the house in hurt,Such contrast with the you we knew at the start:That expectant-mom-and-dad drive...
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Time On Our Wings
—Poems and Photos by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CATHE SHIMMERA large royal-blue eye with its moss-green aura;a sudden dozen-of-themfloating, bobbing mid-air.The scaly-talonedforward...
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In the Days of the Scare
Wakamatsu Lake, Placerville, CA—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAASK THE BIRDSShelter in Place!But a new spring sun’s out, shining.Shelter in Place?A room is such a crowded space,our...
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The Balm of Silence
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of James Lee Jobe The hour just before the sunrise is my favorite time of the day. I love those last moments with the stars and the...
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Lunatic's Dream
—Poems and Artwork by Kevin Eberhardt, Amherst, OH GOING VIRALThey're awaiting the ApocalypseIn New Jersey the best seats areJust inside the Walmart to see allThe action in response to 'turn theOther...
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Embarrassment of Riches!
Platypus —Public Domain Photo Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CASTUFF ON THE FLY—Charles Mariano, Sacramento, CASIGHT UNSEENknew he was oldlike me,because the envelopecame from a mailbox,postage...
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Cobwebs of Time
In the Cue of Time—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAAS IF ALL TIMEsomewhere my death sits waitingwith gifts of applesin his lapsmiling into the directionfrom which i will comeand...
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Edward or Will?
Down the Primrose Path—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Public Domain Photos BED TRICK(All’s Well That Ends Well, Acts Three and Four)The Earl of Oxford forsook his lady’s bed, [but] the father of...
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Beyond the Milky Way
—Poems by Chinese Poet Hongri Yuan (Translated by Yuanbing Zhang)—Public Domain PhotosEACH ROCK IS A POTALA PALACEThe sunshine is mellow wineand there are golden palaces inside the sun.Where a giant is...
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Signs of These Strange Times
—Poems by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—Photos of Placerville Main Street by Taylor Graham 6 A.M. Dawn takes its sweet time these days—as if, like us, it had nodeadline. It makes sure we’re...
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Keeping the Owl Happy
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeStanding outside of my church late at night, I can hear an owl up in a Ponderosa Pine. If you smell the bark of a...
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The Fair Weather Garden
—Public Domain PhotoRAIN BARREL—Tina Hayes, Rio Linda, CAWe met that winterwhen the chill in the airmade it a simple thingto burrow together.Two creatures seeking anotherwhile the sky shoutedand raged...
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It's Crazy Out There!
—Oil Painting by Norman J. Olsen, Maplewood, MN BE STILL—Sue McMahon, Cameron Park, CA The Corona Virus reign of terror has begun Our grocery store clerks and truck drivers are heroes, Working...
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The Hunger of Light
Times Like This—Poems and Original Art by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CANEEDLEtime through a needle goes—goes through dimension of spaceless time—through nothing that is there . . .needle trembles in the...
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Time's Shadow
—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Public Domain Visuals…[O]ne of the wolfish earls so plenteous in the plays themselves, or some born descendant and knower, might seem to be the true author of those...
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The Waiting Time
—Poems by Kimberley Bolton, Jefferson City, MO—Artwork by Norman J. Olsen, Maplewood, MNTHE NIGHT BEFORE HE LEAVES 1845After supper he went off by himself.He could hear the voice of the rivercalling at...
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From the Singing-Stone
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAAPRIL BLUE Dawn breaks to breaking TV news:casualty counts and quarantine,dwell-time to get things really cleanand safe. This virus leaves no...
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