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Inconvenient Angels
Chibi explores the snow in Diamond Springs!(Chibi's meme for today) —Photo taken Sat. Dec. 7by Kathy KiethINCONVENIENT ANGELS—Caschwa, SacramentoNo more for you!Mandated the bartender;You must wear...
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The Heart of An Angel
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoDOOR ANGELBless this door through which no one comes and goes. It is a frozen door, braced shut, made useless by a useless lock, and a framethat settles. The...
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Buffaloes & Question Marks
Cornerstone Gardens, Sonoma—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoSCOUTMASTER’S TALE—Kevin Jones, Elk GroveThe campfire was dyingAnd the scouts asked me howI’d met my wife. Told themShe was from...
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You Never See Crystal...
Rae Gouirand, one of the featured readers at Sac. Poetry Center on Monday, December 9—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoYOU NEVER SEE CRYSTAL LIKE THAT IN CAFES ANYMORE—James Lee JobeHello. We have...
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Our Earth-Wise Lives
—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisHEARING TOM RUSH—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAHearing Tom Rushthis week when I metmy ex again in a coffee housewe remember Joan Baez,Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylanin the peace...
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How Hard Our Prayers
Fall Rose—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeMAKING WINTERHere it is always just aboutGoing to be Winter. They haveAlready taken it out of the box,Started the pilot holes and areJust sorting out...
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I Never Know...
—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoWHO SAYS WORDS WITH MY MOUTH?—RumiAll day I think about it, then at night I say it.Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?I have no idea.My soul...
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Like a Good Lover
ON EARTH—Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran, 1935-1967I never wanted to be a starin the sky's mirage,a select soulor an unspeaking friend of angels.I never left the earthor took up with stars.I stand on the...
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Barefoot Dancing
Hovering Owl—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisFIRST DAY OF SCHOOL—Caschwa, SacramentoToday we would meetThe new teacherOr so we thoughtName was differentMethods notThe same dumb ass kingOf the damn podiumAll...
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When Time Falls On You
Kaylynn Parkinson, one of the featured readersat Sac. Poetry Center last Monday night, Dec. 16—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoWANTING TO BE A MYSTIC—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA If this poet only...
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Like Molten Chocolate
Laura Baumann OtsuboI WAS FEELING—Laura Baumann Otsubo, SacramentoI was feelingsomethingbut rememberedhow you seemedfrustratedwith meSo I becamemadat you.Thinking youwere madat meI began tohate youbut...
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A Broader View of Dreams
—Photo by Ann PrivateerLIFE ON THE STREET—Ann Privateer, DavisAnimals meet and greet in the street where they sometimes share the shade or shave suave sheaves of leaves to fashion a canoe wanting to...
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What Does Not Come Back
Angels Fall. They Are Towers...—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeTHE HOUR OF THE ANGELSA small flock of crows lifted closeAs breathing is to speaking, from the edgeOf the oak grove, startling...
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The Angel's Hand
—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisA DEDICATION—James Merrill Hans, there are moments when the whole mindResolves into a pair of brimming eyes, or lipsParting to drink from the deep spring of a deathThat...
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A Street Called Tranquility
—Photo by Ann Privateer, DavisI live in a house on a street called Tranquility. No one yellsthere or stamps their feet. When searching for a spoon, wenever pour the silverware into our metallic sink,...
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Thinner Than The Rain
Swim Around the Shadows—Photo by Robin Odam, SacramentoTHE RAIN-WALKERS —Joyce Odam, Sacramento1. This is a long poem I must write on a continuous roll of paper. I will roll it and roll it under my...
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The Hush After The Rush
—Photo by D.R. Wagner, Locke BETHLEHEM—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MABethlehem,the city of bread was busypreparing for the childin a cave's dusty mangernot knowing the wise menfrom faraway Persiawould...
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Unexpected Gifts
Christmas, born on Christmas—Photo by Taylor GrahamSPECIAL GIFTS—Taylor Graham, Placerville I unwrapped the mystery package I’d puzzledover—its golden sheen, its iridescent bow. Insidewas nothing I...
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That Poetry By Which We Live
THE BEAR—Galway Kinnell1In late winterI sometims glimpse bits of steamcoming up fromsome fault in the old snowand bend close and see it is lung-coloredand put down my noseand knowthe chilly, enduring...
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Listen To The Heart
The Wall—Photo by D.R. Wagner, LockeAN ADMONITION—D.R. WagnerIn the broad daylight, the ships are shiftedPort to port and from their masts we seeAll of sleep’s delicacy of cities,Their kirks and their...
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