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One Day at a Rhyme
Pumpkinhead doll withLara Gularte's cat, Sharkbait.—Photo by Taylor GrahamSTRIPED SOX—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleGray catperched on her lapwaiting for All Hallows Evein a spider-lacework cubbydesigned...
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Tricks And Treats!
—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisWITCH LORE—Kevin Jones, Elk GroveThey said there were cavesAlong the banksFurther down Spoon RiverWhere the Twilight SistersLived. Find them, spendThe night, you’d neverCome...
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Singing School
—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochSAILING TO BYZANTIUM—William Butler YeatsIThat is no country for old men. The youngIn one another's arms, birds in the trees—Those dying generations—at their...
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Angel Stories
Mums—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeFOR THE CHILDREN GONEThese dreams that were our children,We bury them in the silver of the seas.I will ask you to dance with me for awhile.And the music will...
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On Wine, On Poetry...
BE DRUNK—Charles Baudelaire You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it—it's theonly way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time thatbreaks your back and bends you to the earth, you...
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The Nature of Lost
Blue Water Maiden, Port Sanilac, MI—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis BILL HAD SAID SO—Carol Louise Moon, Sacramento (for Bill Latimer)Bill'd been right about the Yellow-Billed Magpie being only from...
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Leaves of Change
Cyclamen—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoMARRYING THE PRINCEFrom fairy-tale to Princesswe tell how we ran from witchesinto goodness.Love, theHandsome, bends from his horseand saves us.Oh, but...
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Death's Second Self
Lara Gularte, reading at Sac. Poetry CenterMonday, Nov. 4, 2013—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoMANY NAMES—Temple Boxold, Magalia—Annie Menebroker, SacramentoTo name Buddhas in this houseis to name...
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Seacoast
New Orleans—Photo by Cynthia Linville, Sacramento TURNING THE PAGES —B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAMy hands long for changedesiring watering placesleaving the coastlinefor the open fields,there is talk...
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Perfumed Secrets
—Photo by Ann Privateer, DavisBLACK SHAPESturn in a moonless nightebony curls hurl from the breathof emptiness to play, heardbefore seen, following a beamto ignite their sheenbefore dissolving to...
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Monument to a Nightingale
Light—Photo by D.R. WagnerTHE LONELINESS OF BIRDS—D.R. Wagner, LockeThey knew angels by their names.They were heralds for them, carryingBanners and strings of lights that became the stars.They were the...
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Autumn
Berries—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisTHE AUTUMN—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1833)Go, sit upon the lofty hill,And turn your eyes around,Where waving woods and waters wildDo hymn an autumn sound.The summer...
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I Dreamt I Was Falling...
—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochVETERANS DAY, 11-11-13—Michael Cluff, Corona The rigors and requirementsof defending a mighty entitydoes take a piece of the personaway foreverrecovery may never...
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Enough
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoSESTINA FOR LEAF PATTERNS AT MORNING There is in any chance or least designing,say, of leaves upon...
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Dreaming in Colors
River, Grand Canyon—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisALL THE REALLY COOL GUYS HAD NICKNAMES—Kevin Jones, Elk GroveI wanted one too.Decided I wantedTo be calledJellybean, likeKobe Bryant’s dad, orThe...
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Succulent Spices
Marcene Gandolfo reading at Sac. Poetry Centerlast Monday, Nov. 11—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoRASTA—Rhony Bhopla, SacramentoA stranger put a poem in my braidI carried it to the mountains...
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Spiral Seas
Clouds as Waves—Photo by D.R. Wagner, LockeTO THE SHORELINE—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAA mad dash to the shorelineafter picking blackberriesrow by row by dewy fieldsand with the tips of your...
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Apsara
Across the Rooftops—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeI PUT MY MOUTH ON YOURSI put my mouth on yours.There must be cities like thisSomewhere, with all the lights on,People dancing in their...
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As Best We Can
—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochHALF PAST FOUR, OCTOBER—Anna Hajnal (1907-1977)Twilight. By now the genial sea of duskis lapping at the window. A rising tidebears the plane tree aloft and far...
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Flickering Candles
—Photo by Katy BrownDid you see the video?—Katy Brown, DavisSomewhere in Turkeya white catand a winter-grey foxare best friends.On a stony beachbeside a distant lake,these two share foodand sunand a...
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