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Time's Lost Moments
The Lonely Music—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAAFTER MILOSZ“as if we were still participants in our indecent dance” —Czeslaw Milosz As if wewere still therein our indecent...
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Lightning Strikes
—Ducks by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal—Poetry by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal, West Covina, CA—Lightning Photos Courtesy of Public DomainPRISON ESCAPEI slip out at night.I risk my footsteps and the...
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Eavesdropping on Jane's Gals
—Three Poems about Jane Austen’s Characters by Jennifer Fenn, Fresno, CA —Bonnet Artistry Courtesy of Public DomainI’M KITTY! TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT! I do my mending beside Mamá.My thread and needle I...
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In Quake of Aspen
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And scroll down for Form Fiddlers' Friday!! SAFE Driving upcountry, sunglare through windshield, hard to see centerline. 5 crosses in a row—family...
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Dust Devils of August
—Poetry by Kimberly Bolton, Jefferson City, MO—Public Domain Images THE BEAUTIFUL INDIFFERENCE OF AUGUSTBeautiful indifference of August!Its lavish heat saturating the air.All the season’s pompous...
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Transforming Us
Ota Benga—Photo Courtesy of Public DomainWHEN WE WERE SAVAGESA collaborative poem in five parts by the Jeff City Poets: Michael H. Brownstein, Kurt Groner, Bob Boldt, Dick Dalton, & Michael E....
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Dreaming in This Jungle, Our Planet
—Poetry by Michael Ceraolo, Caschwa (Carl Schwartz), Joseph Nolan, and Rhony Bhopla—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph NolanMODERN OLYMPIAN ODE #29: (1980) Miracles Not on Ice—Michael Ceraolo, S....
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In a Certain Moonlight
A Long Time Before Now—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...
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No Going Back
—Poetry by Linda Klein, Playa Vista, CA—Photos Courtesy of Public DomainBROOKLYNBarry brought me a recordand asked me to play it for him.I put it on the turntable.Dad's scratchy old phonograph,it was...
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Water is a Cool Dream
“The lake is blue with white sparkles…”—Poetry by J.D. Nelson, Boulder, Colorado—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAwater is a cool dream to name itself the lake is...
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Locally Laid Ladies
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAWAKING TO SMOKEAn amber-hazy sky—I gaze and gazebut not a bird will fly,yet there’s no scent of rain. Whydo I sense the day might die? NOT LIKE...
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Reaching For Sugar
About Proust Glasses(Public Domain Photo Courtesy of Chris Feldman)—Poetry by Ann Wehrman, Sacramento, CA—Photography by Chris Feldman MARS AND VENUS MEET IN LEO, JULY 2021Mars had checked off all the...
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Big Heart
“. . . in the way the sea places its many fingers on the shore . . ."—Public Domain PhotoTHE BIG HEART—Anne Sexton (1928-1974)"Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold."...
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Accepting Rust
—Poetry by Joseph Nolan and Carl Schwartz (Caschwa) —Public Domain Art Courtesy of Joseph Nolan ACCEPTING RUST—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CARust.Such is metal,Scourged by lust!Slowly, it turns...
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Looking For Blue Rain
Shadows Burning—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA SUMMER SKIESWhat kind of courage paves the wayfor those who pray their way through life—unwinding . . .The forests keep burningthe...
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Casting Our Zeroes and Ones
—Photo by Robert Ramming —Poetry by Robert Ramming, Yolo County, CA—Photos by Robert Ramming and Joseph NolanFOREBODINGSomething's wrong tonight the moon is full but the...
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Precious Cargo
Yellow Submarine—Poetry and Visuals by Smith (Steven B. Smith), Cleveland, OH GLOW GO MO-FOMy computer sound card diedthe day Prince didso I could sit in silenceand respect his sound.That sexy...
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A Climate Unraveling
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAALICE’S WONDERLAND DOOR She walked past sleep into a new world, the edge of forest filtered by nightly spiderwebs. The old way evolved, involved,...
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The Forest Burns Hot
—Public Domain Photo, Caldor Fire in California—Poetry by Kathy Kieth, Diamond Springs, CA THE FOREST BURNS HOTthis year: a woman tries to torch old loveletters that turn on her: turn intotiny sparks...
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The Smoke of Tenderness
—Public Domain PhotoSMOKE—Philip Levine (1928-2015)Can you imagine the air filled with smoke?It was. The city was vanishing before noonor was it earlier than that? I can't say becausethe light came...
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