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Summer, Do Not Follow Me
—Poetry by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, West Covina, CA—Sun God Visuals Courtesy of Public DomainBIRD WATCHINGI have seen them from pierssoaring above the oceanwithout desperate flapping in the...
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And Rivers Keep On Flowing
Good Morning, Monday!—Public Domain Photo Courtesy of Joseph NolanA MORNING’S CONTEMPLATION—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CALight pours through the canyon,In the water,In the rain,While I am undertaking,To...
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Intrusions of the Spirit
When Yesterday is Today—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAMOON SIRENWhy fight for sleep when the whole moon isshining white and near through the window,when words are waiting to become your...
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Touching the Invisible
—Poetry by Linda Klein, Los Angeles, CA—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAINVISIBLESometimes I feel invisible.People look past meor through me with indifferenceas if I wasn't...
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The Palace on the Mountaintop
—Poetry by Yuan Hongri, China —Translated by Yuanbing Zhang, China —Public Domain PhotosEVERY GIANT LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER ME There is a colossal ship in my golden state from outer space; sometimes it...
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A Silence of Leaves
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAWILD OATS, RIPGUT BROME, and this unnamed grass that falls to the whirling string of my weed-eater clearing a way up what used to be wagon road...
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Hoping For Goodness
—Poetry by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeSilence at dawn, silence at dusk. The moon, slippery as an eel, is chased by the sun, is chased all around the sky....
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What Lingers
—Public Domain IllustrationTHE HAUNTED OAK—Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)Pray why are you so bare, so bare, Oh, bough of the old oak-tree;And why, when I go through the shade you throw, Runs a...
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Wash Your Own Dishes
—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan FIVE SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAThe inevitable,CatastrophicEscalationWe have all Learned to fearIs almost here. A mini-nukeHas hit...
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Illusions Are Everywhere
Time Without Hours—Poetry and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAA NIGHT OF SILVERBoats on the grass.Houses floating on air.A white fence in the darkness.A shining upon everythingas though...
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Summer Blooms
—Poetry and Photos by Sue Daly, Sacramento, CACOVID SUMMER Another night of numbnessfades into a dismal dawn.Masked ghosts walk onburning summer sidewalks.Lavender roses begin to wilt in the fevered...
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Grim And Bear It
—Poetry and Visuals by Smith, Cleveland, OHON THE BLOCKCar repair shop waiting roomawaiting biteunmisled by free brownies and caffeinewhat will the car gods want?ain't got no 1st bornhaving snipped my...
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Shelter Times
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And Scroll Down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday!TWO SIDES OF THE ROAD I just met our new neighbor—is he new? He may have been here years before we came,...
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Call Everything Love
—Poetry by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of James Lee JobeThe sun gives us love, and we humans call it light, warmth. The earth gives us love, and we humans call it home. And...
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Birds of Flame
—Poetry by Allison Grayhurst, Toronto, Ontario, Canada —Public Domain IllustrationsBIRDUp intoa wet pillow-cloud skybird of flamelike a yellow rosetouching the toes of gods,past treelines and...
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Creatures of Context
—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAFOUR PANDEMIC POEMS—John Stickney, Wilmington, NCSomewhere Among Us a Virus is Taking Notes (after C. Simic and Z. Herbert; inspired...
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The Simple Joy of Taste
This Seeing—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CASTOPPING FOR FROSTY FREEZE IN OCTOBERSusy with frosty freezeis as happy as she will ever be.The gleaming ice creamtwirled upon the coneis the...
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Paz
—Poetry by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, West Covina, CA—Public Domain ArtworkMILK SHAKEI am watchingthe milk shake.I am waitingfor the spill.I have time onmy hands andmy hands shakelike milk too.Just...
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Nature's Way
—Poems and Photos by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CAEARS TO HEAR“The moon appeared. On the hill stands a man, a face is hidden under his hat.” —Sakutaro Hagiwara (1889-1942) The moon...
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Gangly-Birds and Blood-Suns
—Poetry and Poems by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And scroll down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday! TOO CLOSE Creak-screak or coiny-jingle shopping carts on asphalt, all of us in a rush to mask/unmask....
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