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A Poet & Her Quilled Lines
 —Poetry and Photos by Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CA   MEMOIRS OF A LONELY EAR A house cast in shadows A stuck door A cold doorknob A sad dove song Molded memories linger in my inner ear Your...
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Those Ponies Express
 Pony Handoffs, 2021 Pony Express Re-Ride—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA SUNSET SNIPPETS Pony Express Re-Ride 2021 Two golden Haflingers haltered, picking bits of hay from...
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A Few Observations
 —Poetry and Artwork by Norman J. Olson, Maplewood, MinnesotaKEY LARGO PARKING LOT  palm fronds wave like arms, like charms, prehensile in the wind…  prehistoric pelicans on knife-edge wings float...
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A Poem Should Be . . .
 —Public Domain Photo   ARS POETICA—Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)A poem should be palpable and mute  As a globed fruit,DumbAs old medallions to the thumb,Silent as the sleeve-worn stoneOf casement...
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Monday, Monday
 —Poetry Recipes by Caschwa (Carl Schwartz), Michael Ceraolo, and Joseph Nolan—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph NolanTELL ME YOU’RE READY —Caschwa, Sacramento, CAI can barely contain myself! the...
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A Jostlement of Shadows
 She Listens—Poetry and Photography by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA   NAMING THE DARKNESSAfter Stanbury Moor (Photograph by Fay Godwin from Remains of Elmet, Poetry by Ted Hughes)  What shall I name this...
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To No True Good Is Up?
 —Poetry by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA —Public Domain Photos LED HEADLIGHTS Cars, cars, cars, cars. Thy bluish headlights blind.It’s the reverse of Jesus’ parable:The mote is in mine eye, the beam in...
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Sprinkles of Angelblood
 —Poetry by Kimberly Bolton, Jefferson City, MO—Public Domain PhotosTWITTERPATIONIt is the sort of day just made for twitterpation.A luscious day,Full of sun and green grass.Too glorious to tolerate...
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Hello, July!
 —Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CADARK - DIM - LIGHT Get up before daylight— stretch your muscles in the dark your wakeup friend. One cup of coffee black, no sugar: jumpstart what...
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A Murder of Crows
 —Poetry by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal, West Covina, CA—Public Domain VisualsTHE LAND OF BIRDSHead onto the land of birdsto the worldwhere the scenery is filled with song and things that fly.A...
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High Hopes for Problem Solving
  INDEPENDENCE DAY —Caschwa, Sacramento, CAAmerica fought and won a long and bloody war to free itself from the egregious harms imposed by the brutal King George some have since extended the concept of...
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The Music of Fruit
 —Poetry by Ann Privateer, Caschwa (Carl Schwartz), Michael Ceraolo, Joseph Nolan—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph NolanIN A MOMENT—Ann Privateer, Davis, CAThe music of fruitResonates in a...
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Small Mercies
 Night As Part Glass and Part River —Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CASUBJECT MATTERwater is glass, imaged by nightnight is part glassand part rivereach night a small boat drifts...
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Tasting the Apple
  —Poetry by Linda Klein, Jefferson City, MO—Public Domain Photos AFTER THE FIREThey let us back in.Our home was a charred skeletonflapping sadly in the wind,charcoal arms waving at us.I hoped to find...
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Beach Boys, Dance
 Alberta Bound—Poetry by Michael Lee Johnson, Itasca, IL—Photos Courtesy of Michael Lee Johnson    ALBERTA BOUND I own a gate to this prairiethat ends facing the Rocky Mountains.They call it...
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Haunted Forest
 —Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And scroll down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday!!SMALL MERCIES August. 105 degrees in the shade but there wasn’t any on that tall, bare south- facing...
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Re-Making the Morning
 Bluebonnets 04—Photo by Chris Feldman —Poetry by Ann Wehrman, Sacramento, CA—Photos by Chris Feldman and Ann WehrmanI DRY MY HAIR OUTSIDE IN THE SUN I dry my hair outside in the sun where warm morning...
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In the Midst of the Corn
 —Abstract Sunrise by Osnat Tzadok   SUMMER DAWN—William Morris (1834-1896)Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips, Think but one thought of me up in the stars. The summer night waneth, the...
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"Launching" Another Week in Poetry!
 Gotcher Ducks in a Row?—Poetry by Joseph Nolan and Caschwa (Carl Schwartz)—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan SUMMER AT HUNT LAKE—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CALight hangs on the windowsill.We...
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Light Burns With Promise
 Bird Feather, No Further Info —Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA    LOTTERYMother, today I bought a lottery ticket.Do you approve?I, the disbelieving, pessimistic one,need to move...
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