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Gifts of Love
—Public Domain PhotoTHE BEST GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS IS THE GIFT OF LOVE—Michael H. Brownstein, Jefferson City, MOHow do we create love?Past the woods, past the old asphalt road, into the road of potholes...
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Closing Off the Year
Coronament—Poetry by Michelle Kunert, Joseph Nolan, John Stickney, Michael Ceraolo, Caschwa (Carl Schwartz—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAEver since I was a kid, I enjoyed...
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In Time's Cold Light
Love As Treasure—Poetry and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE BETTER PART OF LOVEMuse with me while we gather light for a poem.We will read it later—tell each other what it means,then...
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Mi Medicina
—Poetry by Linda Klein, Los Angeles, CA—Public Domain PhotosMORNING WALKI make my way through dense fog,intent on finding a clearing,passing old tree trunks, scarredby patches of peeling, dappled...
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The Eely Arrow
—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CATIMEroars downa funnel: percheslike droplets ofspilledwine: drifts likea feather: poseson a toe-shoe: spoils its dinner on snacks:...
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The Song of Oaks
Latches—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And scroll down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday!5:25 AM And I am—awake between woodstove just beginning to crackle-flare and coffee maker gurgling...
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The Field With No End
—Poetry by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of James Lee Jobea field of alfalfa that goes on until mondaya field with no beginning and no endand somewhere deep within the...
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Maya, Oh Maya ~~~
Signs of a COVID Xmas—Poetry by Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CA—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph NolanA COVID CHRISTMAS, NOT!A COVID Christmas, not!I dripped a purple spotOn the dot for 25.Glad...
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Change Moves On
The Snakes Imitate Congress—Public Domain Cartoon—Poetry by Ann Privateer, Caschwa (Carl Schwartz), Michelle Kunert, Joseph Nolan GOODBYE YEAR—Ann Privateer, Davis, CATo a year that taught meTo slow...
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Whispers in the Dark
The Situation—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAA CHANT OF SOMEONE COMING WITH SAD NEWSIs it Death they’re bringing in a long box?Is it only a mockery of life, that self-love?Nearer and...
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Galaxies On Fire
—Poetry by Bob Boldt, Jefferson City, MO—Public Domain Photos GOOD EVENING! GOOD EVENING! Imagine dollars in my hand meaningless as November leaves. Money, like all the precious, leaves first....
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Variations on Knowing
—Prose Poetry by David Booth, San Francisco, CA—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CATOO BRIGHT TO SEEA boy walks in waist-high water parting and swirling back together behind...
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Whispers of Skunk
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And scroll down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday!OWL TIME You’re up long before dawn, reluctant of lamps. Outside, the gibbous moon’s reflecting off...
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We Are All The Same
—Poetry by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CA—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of James Lee Jobethe sacramento valley 1am still in my reading chair with thich nhat hanh setting down the booki breathe in a...
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Sowing With Good Grass
—Poetry by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Public Domain PhotosDENTAL VISIT, DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO The dentist probes and sculpts with flicking gestures,Packs in at gumline level, not filling, white...
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Strange Scapes of the Mind
—Poetry by Joseph Nolan, Michael Ceraolo,Michelle Kunert, Caschwa (Carl Schwartz)—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CABUFFALO-MAN OF THE CAPITOL BUILDING(Ode to January 6,...
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The Other Side of Dark
—Poetry and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE GHOST ON THE USED-UP ROADHello, the voice says, coming fromthe shape of the ghost on the roadmade of moonlight and footsteps.Hello, I...
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The Scent of Good News
—Poetry by Michael H. Brownstein, Jefferson City, MO—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CA WINTER’S ICE STORMThe wind fell to a whimper, the ice began falling,breaking the...
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Who Stole My Sky?
—Poetry by Joan McNerney, Ravena, NY—Public Domain PhotosFALLING Down into dusty subterraneouspassages where trains race. Silver rods sped through dream stations transforming tunnels with bolts of...
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A Congregation of Conks
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And scroll down to Form Fiddlers' Friday! CLEARING THE DAY Early new year, early morning. All is sparkling, surroundings washed clean with...
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