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Carving Your Heart
Louise —Poetry by Louise Robertson, Columbus, OH—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain A BED TO LIE INWhen I take the kids to the backyard,where I’ve mowed, pulled up the poison sumac, and collected...
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Sploosh!
Orange 1923—Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)—Poetry by Jeremy Scott, Albany, GA BREAKING NEWS BRIC-À-BRAC Lying fallow—resinous hollow,we are fed with the mouths of men, Side-eying the...
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O is for Orange
—Original Art Pieces by Norman J. Olson, Maplewood, MN—Poetry by Jeanine Stevens, Joseph Nolan, andCaschwa (Carl Schwartz)I OBSERVE THE COLOR ORANGE—Jeanine Stevens, Sacramento, CA How terrible...
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Of All The Colours ~
The Quiet Distance—Poetry, Photos and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA CHILDLESSOutside, the voices of loud childrensurrounding the mirage of my house I live here in precarious...
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Rationing Our Days
Mark J. Mitchell—Poetry by Mark J. Mitchell, San Francisco, CA CABLE CAR HOOPTETOODLEThe cars roll—too shiny for fog. She held off the coastand let sun pour bright as Sonoma butteron ringing bells....
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The Salty Tides of Fate
—Poetry by R. Gerry Fabian, Doylestown, PA—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CA MUSTANG SALLY Sparks fly whenever you double-clutch my heart with your fuel-injected passion. A...
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Rumble-Hums & Wordless Joy
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And scroll down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday!!THE POND THIS MORNING Egret wings its morning song low across the water, rising, surveying wetland...
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Truly Alive!
—Poetry by Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CA—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CA ODE TO AN ANCIENT LIPSTICK Flamboyant tube, it’s sad, but now,fully turned up, you’re flat as a...
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That Gossamer Veil
—Poetry and Photos by jobe, Davis, CAI send my broken messages out on the internet and in quiet prayers, loud cries and wails these messages to my lost son William in the Bardo I am on one side...
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Snails, Goddesses & Chewing Gum
This road was designed to force people to slow down and enjoy the views.—Poetry by Joseph Nolan, Michelle Kunert, Michael Ceraolo, Caschwa (Carl Schwartz), and Kevin Jones—Photos by Joseph Nolan and...
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As Mysterious As Life
As Mysterious As Life—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CACOBWEBYou’ve hung there for years. You have become my favorite design, the way you drape across the corner, like an awning,the way...
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Alchemy
—Poetry and Photos by Sara Altman, Nyack, NYCROSSHATCH BLUESPast the point where sand collides with crosshatched bluesexists the quantification of my life—like when flux led to flightOr when I was...
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Why The Land Is Red
Tim Hunt—Poetry by Tim Hunt, Normal, IL—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Tim Hunt and Joseph NolanWHY THE LAND IS RED (LAKE COUNTY, CA)The old miners say the cinnabar is why the land is red,but the...
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This Stifling Fug
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CACUT OFF Your bridge to the outside world is broken? They say it could take months to inspect and fix? Must you go to town? Isn’t there an emergency...
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Living in the Real World... Sort Of...
Mike Hickman—Poetry by Mike Hickman, York, England—Public Domain Artwork THE THEORY OF NAMES He has, and he’ll tell you, his “Theory of Names”. What Steve “means”, for example, or Dave or Julian or...
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Where a Bird Sings
Original Artwork by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, West Covina, CA—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain THERE’S A PLACE There’s a placeI have not gone beforejust around the bendand now I know.There’s a...
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Something Foul's A-Whiff
—Poetry by Stephen Kingsnorth, Joseph Nolan, and Carl Schwartz (Caschwa)—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph NolanFOR EVERYTHING, A SEASON —Stephen Kingsnorth, Coedpoeth, WalesThe soil receives...
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These Gathering Hours
A Random Grace—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAOCTOBER FRAGMENTS yellow light through dark tree spaces between black leaves sky-blue light through dark treechairs in a patiosweepers...
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Release
—Poetry by Jean Jones, Wilmington, NC—Public Domain Photos I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU MY WHOLE LIFEMy whole life I've been looking for you—how I wished it was you, how I begged it was you,And when you...
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Wordwork by Smith
—Poetry and Visuals by Smith (Steven B. Smith), Cleveland, OHNew daynew rockold hill Morning Dew Bad poetry by dead peopleat least they're doneBad poetry by the livingthreat of more to comeAm I...
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