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Like An Addiction
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoBLACK JELLY BEANS—their subtle gleam, their perfect size and roundness. (Aslant of perfect for the word’s sake). How theytaste—unusual and singularSo many...
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Yelling at the Sky
Pizza Clock—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoTHE WEIGHT OF DOGS—William S. Gainer, Grass Valley Rose on the porch yelling at the sky. The thunder stops. She has no idea what she's...
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Pianos On Fire
Featured Reader Rebecca Foust, reading atSac. Poetry Center Monday, Nov. 18—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoPIANO—Jane Blue, Sacramento(On a painting by Andrew Ferez)The piano is on fire.I am...
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Bitten By The Bug
Maggie Frost reading at the release party forRattlesnake Press's latest issue of WTFlast night, Thurs. Nov. 21,Poetry Unplugged at Luna's Cafe—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoHI, MY NAME IS KATY...
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The Furniture of Eternity
Beach Art, Bolinas—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeABANDONMENTTears from wounds. The soundToo many stars make when they catchIn our dreams, harvesting the painWe were unable to express in a...
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November's Need
Stuart's House at Twilight—Photo by D.R. Wagner, LockeNOVEMBER SHINE—Rolfe HumphriesNot now the oil-black shimmer of summer on the road,But a gray glare, still glare, though, and still brightEnough to...
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Unexpected Angels
LOVE ADDICT—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAMy meeting with Gregwho wanders the beach sandspicking up canswho was going toa twelve-step programtells me he was in Narcotics Anonymousand AAnow he goes to a...
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Hungers
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHE ADDICTIONI have survived one day without you.I am strong.Today the sun is real.The wind is not rising.The cries of the crow are sharpand my ears are...
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Bouillabaisse
—Poems and Photos by Ann Privateer, DavisVIEW FROM THE TOP The trail angles toward a ridgewhere wind tinsels leavesand Eucalyptus trees sway.A quick lunch then wetake a last view from the topbefore...
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Somewhere In The Labyrinth
Church and Tree, Bolinas—Photo by D.R. Wagner, LockeMAY I ASK YOU A QUESTION?—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleWhat advice would you give the children?Watch flocks of bright birds like shuffling cards.What...
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Stay With the Caravan
VISITING BETSY —Claire J. Baker, PinoleA hummingbird flitsalong nursing homesliding-door glassas if a new kind of airmay be penetratedwith patience._____________________The whiz-kid whirrsup,...
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Believe the Wind
Rooftop—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeIN THE LABYRINTHI have told the children that it was still raining.I asked them to come to the window and see how this is.Look at these cards I have been...
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Such A Caroling
Sebastopol Cemetery—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoAS WHEN SOME HUNGRY FLEDGLING HEARS AND SEES—Vittoria da Colonna, 1490-1547As when some hungry fledgling hears and sees His mother's wings...
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Don't Let The Cat Out...
—Photo by Michelle KunertIN MY DREAMI supposedly woke with poems written upon my body, erotic love-poem passages superglued as pages to my arms' skin and I didn't know how any of it got...
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Like A Homing
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoIMPERFECTIONAfter a painting by Kathrine Lemke WasteA certain ragelike words upon a page—ceramic blue—real peach,the nothing we can reach.Rumple the cloth...
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Angels With Many Faces
Blink—Photo by Taylor GrahamBLINK AND YOU SEE AN ANGEL—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleThey’ve found one in the wreckage of 9-11.“Corrosion,” the skeptics say. “That’swhat happens to metal after all these...
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Becoming Ogden Nash
Lights—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisOVERWHELMED: PARALLELS AT 72:52—Michael Cluff, Corona On the blueof the not-nearly-paid-off car,the granulesfrom the dirt trailbetween the freewayand the semi-tossed...
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Straight From The Angels
Knot Hole—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisTHINGS THE ANGELS TOLD ME —James Lee Jobe, Davis The light doesn't pay any attention to you. Not even a little. The choice of what to be was always yours, and still...
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Living By Enchantment
Snodgrass Slough—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeDARING TO DREAMTime dared History to dreamBut it feared for its many children.“It’s just a dream,” said Time,“What could go wrong?”“I might find...
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Unaccustomed to Courage
Mystical Conversation—Painting by Bertrand-Jean Redon (better known as Odilon Redon), 1840-1916TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL—Maya AngelouWe, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of...
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