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Spring Primer
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CABRIDGE OVER THE SOUTH FORKLow one-lane bridge over river running high and wide—my pickup barely fits within the bridge’s side-rails. I pause at the...
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Let There Be Peace
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeThere is a lovely hill in my heart.The sun rises on one sideAnd sets on the other. Perfectly.At noon the sun is...
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That Fine Line
—Poems by William Lee-Jobe (1991-2017)regeneratewash awayall the blood on your handsfrom all the mistakes you’ve made,all the damage you’ve causedbathe in holy water,surround yourself in healing, and...
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Ages & Stages While Stuck in Our Cages
—Original Art by Duane Toops, Melbourne, FLSELF-TIME—Sue Crisp, Shingle Springs, CAThere are those times you justneed some “me” time. I findmyself wanting a form ofisolation, a barrier from...
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Let The Hand Withdraw From Knowing
Edge of Waiting—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAINTERPRETATIONSThe conversations blur into each other.It’s good to be among people.People are lonely.They talk through each other.They...
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Crooked Smiles in Shadows
—Poems by Michael Lee Johnson, Ithaca, NY—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Michael Lee JohnsonDANCE OF TEARS, CHIEF NOBODY I’m old Indian chief storyplastered on white scattered sheets,Caucasian paper...
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Come Away . . .
LA Without Smog!—Poems by Linda Klein, Los Angeles, CA—Public Domain Photo Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAWHEN JAZZ SPEAKS TO ME"Come away, love, with me.Let's get down and dirty.I'll steal your...
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Resolve To Be Alive!
Poppies!—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA LOCKDOWN (a Sestina) This is just a bump in the road. Time to embrace stay-at-home as a temporary fixture of life; a solo howl ricocheting...
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When Dragons Make Love
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Public Domain Visuals Courtesy of James Lee Jobe Morning fog, cold air, then sunny later, with weak clouds. The Sacramento Valley wakes up like an old man. The bed...
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Mother's Day, 2020
—Public Domain Photo Courtesy of Sue CrispTHE ART OF MOTHERING—Sue Crisp, Shingle Springs, CA It’s here...it’s here!The months of waitingfor nearly a year.The tiny calf seemed totake its time to...
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Shining At Horizons
—Cut-Out Poem by Duane Toops, Melbourne, FL(Based on Sue Crisp’s Poem, “Ages and Stages”, Medusa’s Kitchen, 5/4/20)TRUE BLUE —Caschwa, Sacramento, CA When it came time replace my old, dull gray car the...
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All Good Things Surround Her
The Calla Lilies, in Bloom Again—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CADECIDING THE MORNINGAnd who am I dreaming to become—heaviest in sleep—lost in my own mind,waking to a closet...
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Dying to the World
—Poetry by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Sketches by Norman J. Olson, Maplewood, MNON READING JAMES MERRILLI’m reading Mirabell, The Inner Room,“Lost in Translation,” understandable—As victim, between...
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Angels At The Tea House
—Poems by Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CA—Public Domain PhotosIN JAPANESE TEA HOUSE(Golden Gate Park, SF) Lightning and rainilluminate a huge Buddhain tea garden park.His stony lips curlinto a half...
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Long Life & Good Hunting
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAPORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN Getty Museum Quarantine Challenge She’s the live ekphrastic of a painting, 1632, by Nicolaes Pickenoy. Her name...
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Moving Into The Silence
—Poems by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeThe moon is just over half-fat, and waning. Not yet sunrise. The air tells me that a storm is on the way, soon to...
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Great Diamonds
—Public Domain PhotoIT RAINS—Edward Thomas (1878-1917) It rains, and nothing stirs within the fenceAnywhere through the orchard’s untrodden, denseForest of parsley. The great diamondsOf rain on the...
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Gems
—Public Domain Photo Courtesy of Sue CrispHIDDEN TREASURE—Sue Crisp, Shingle Springs, CAIt’s May, that tween-time of late springand early summer. Today, perhaps ourlast mini-rain of the season. Air...
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Pastorals of Self-Deceiving
A Phase—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAAGAINST FINDINGBrooding alone by a marshy pond. Sitting among the shadows. A strange position. No grief but hers. Made of love, hate, her thoughts...
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Worshipping God Apollo
—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Public Domain Photos of LED Butterfly Ballerinas BLACK MARKET, WHITE PAPER“I’ll trade all these conflict diamondsfor two rolls of your toilet paper.”What a tango of...
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