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Clearing
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And scroll down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday!!MEMORIAL DAY I’m out weed-eating, a battle against wildfire—enemy grown catastrophic these last years....
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Whodunit?
—Poetry by Neil Fulwood, Nottingham, UK —Illustrations Courtesy of Public Domain MISSING This is where you’ll find yourselffor weeks and months afterwards,maybe for years: rewindingyour memories of...
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Safety First
BEWARE: DO NOT READ THIS POEM—Ishmael Reedtonite, thriller wasabout an old woman, so vain shesurrounded herself with many mirrors it got so bad that finally she...
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The Fun & Frivolity That Is June
—Poetry by Carl Schwartz (Caschwa), Michael Ceraolo, and Joseph Nolan—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CA THE DAY THEY DON’T WANT US TO REMEMBER —Caschwa, Sacramento, CA “Not...
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Letting the Cat Out
Blue Cat Two White Cats Pink Bird—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE CAT IN THE FORESTI hear the cat’s voice, but the air is too thin to hold it.It is another fairy tale, and the cat...
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Metamorphosis
—Poetry by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Photos Courtesy of Public DomainGOLDING AND OXFORD: The Book of Transformation [I]ndeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an...
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Just Like That!
jobe—Poetry by jobe, Davis, CA—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of jobe The moon sets in west just after dawnAnd a two-seedling fir takes root, is born,Just like that.I was born three thousand miles from...
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Critters in the Foothills
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And scroll down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday!!STILL LIFE ON WOOD GRAIN In my rag-mop hung to dry on the deck, a tiny frog. So early! end of May —frogs...
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Dancing of the Crows
—Poetry by Michael Lee Johnson, Itasca, IL—Visuals Courtesy of Michael Johnson KANSAS, OLD ABANDONED HOUSEHouse, weathered, bashed-in grays, spiders,homespun surrounding yellows and pinkson a Kansas...
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The Moon in June
—Public Domain Photo Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAA JUNE NIGHT—Emma Lazarus, 1878Ten o’clock: the broken moonHangs not yet a half hour high, Yellow as a shield of brass, In the dewy air of...
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The Back of the Moon
What Some Mondays Are Like in Wildlife Photography…—Poetry by Joseph Nolan and Caschwa (Carl Schwartz)—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph NolanWHAT THESE ROCKS HAVE SEEN!—Joseph Nolan, Stockton,...
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He Brings Me Rocks
Moonstone—Poetry and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE WAY OF STONESThis is the way all stones are laid in a path—recognizable or not,belonging where they are—they are not there...
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The Language of Roses
—Poetry by Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CA—Photos Courtesy of Public DomainHERE IN THE HEAVENSWe humans transcendedfiery upheavals,dangerous convergences,primeval swamps,the wildest of...
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Snake and the Bossa Nova
LSD—Poetry and Visuals by Smith (Steven B. Smith), Cleveland, OH LOCOMOTIONSnake didn't offer Eve no applenoit was a cup of coffeehotblackno sugarthat opened their eyesand they thought wow, if this...
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Closer to Angels
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And scroll down for FORM FIDDLERS" FRIDAY!!SUN TEA & SHADE We’re waiting on camp chairs in shade of ponderosa and incense cedar edging main...
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Cutting the Grass
—Poetry by Michael H. Brownstein, Jefferson City, MO and Nguyenvan Luat—Photos Courtesy of Public DomainI CUT THE GRASS WITH MY SON My son, no longer a boy, tall and tallerLeans into the lawn mower on...
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Family Tree
—Poetry by Linda Klein, Los Angeles, CA, with a LittleNip by Caschwa (Carl Schwartz), Sacramento, CA—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain THE LONG WAY HOME—Linda KleinPain from slipping and falling on an...
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Here and Gone
—Poetry by Joseph Nolan, Michael Ceraolo and Caschwa (Carl Schwartz)—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph NolanPOST-TRAUMATIC DREAMS—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAWe always slumberIn the aftermath Of...
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Dreams of Our Llives
Only This Desire—Poetry and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAFIRE DREAMDo you thirst,said the spectre—swimming before me—my dream stretched out like a blanket afire,the sky foreboding at...
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As Timeless As Tiffany
—Poetry by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Photos of Tiffany Lamps Courtesy of Public DomainIRONIES YOUNG AND OLDFor James Lee Jobe Dear James, your poem on ironies of strengthAnd youthful ignorance, versus...
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