Autumn Song
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And scroll down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday!!GARDENS inspired by Elihu Burritt’s journeysThe man who rakes and hoes,who plants seeds and...
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WTF?—Poetry by Mike Hickman, York, England—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CABACK TODAY? “Back today?” he asks, not meeting my gaze, and doing that thing with his lip. I stand...
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—Poetry by Jack D. Harvey, Delmar, NY—Photos and Artwork Courtesy of Public DomainZAMA Hannibal at Zama: among the cannibals an eye as fierce as any. A quick revenge proved slow as sand in an...
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Grand Central Concourse Clock—Public Domain Photo Courtesy of Stephen Kingsnorth—Poetry by Stephen Kingsnorth, Joseph Nolan, Michelle Kunert, Carl Schwartz (Caschwa)—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of...
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Story Behind It—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CADAVID IN THE SUNBEAMIn the sunlight on the floorthe cat sleeps.It is almost a stillness.The child on the tricyclepedals into the...
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—Poetry by George Ryan, New York, NY—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain PROTESTER She may have been younger than she appeared, a very pretty white girl clad in black. She carried a two-by-three...
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Alaska Moonscape—Poetry and Photos by Carol Eve Ford, Kenai, AK SPACEI used to think of spaceas a clear sky. Maybe a night skycurving around and above us.When I got older I learned thatspacewas full...
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—Poetry by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—Photos by Taylor Graham and Carol Eve Ford—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan COYOTE TALE Remember that burst of winter-bloom in a tiny triangle...
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—Poetry by Yuan Changming, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain FEATURES for Helen Hengxiang Liao Not coincidentally, I have met many a person With a strong...
View ArticleCreepy Stuff to Scare You Out of What Wits You Have Left
—Skeleton Pot Photo by Michelle Kunert —Poetry by Joseph Nolan, Stephen Kingsnorth, Jean Jones—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan and Stephen Kingsnorth LURKING MONSTERS—Joseph Nolan,...
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Día de los Muertos! —Poetry by Stephen Kingsnorth, Caschwa (Carl Schwartz), Joseph Nolan—Public Domain Photos by Joseph Nolan, Stephen KingsnorthSIREN—Stephen Kingsnorth, Coedpoeth, Wrexham, Wales,...
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A Life Symbolic—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CASHADOWS THAT GROW TOO LOUDThough you repeated what you said, I made no sense of it. I heard only your voice, the tone of it, going on and...
View ArticleRestless, Hung Over, Psychotic
Tohm—Poetry by Tohm Bakelas, New Jersey—Public Domain Photosforevermore i'm just a restless soulon a dead-end roadand there's no place to go doesn’t he know i’m hung over? red-bellied...
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CA Desert by Air—Poetry by Ann Wehrman, Sacramento, CA—Photos by Chris FeldmanICARUS flawed human that he was, in his fatal pride he surely felt the cold, clear joy of flying far above the world...
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—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And scroll down to Form Fiddlers’ Friday!!HALLOWEEN’S OVERMedusa wakes alive with snakes—how could her eyes have turned alone herself to stone?...
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Joshua Martin—Poetry by Joshua Martin, Philadelphia, PA—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAI drag my limp cross your racist uncleI drag my limp across your racist uncle the...
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Stephen Kingsnorth, Coedpoeth, Wrexham, Wales, UK—Poetry by Stephen Kingsnorth —Photos Courtesy of Public Domain GROWING PATCH For years it was a briar patch, the spittoon for my tar babies where...
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—Poetry by Joseph Nolan, Stephen Kingsnorth, Michelle Kuynert, Caschwa (Carl Schwartz)—Public Domain Photos by Joseph Nolan and Stephen Kingsnorth SOUP—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAThings that stew For...
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While Outside It Rains—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAA MELANCHOLY FOR FLUTE AND RAIN (Listening to MINDSCAPES “Rainsong”)If I could play the fluteI would play it in the rain.I would...
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Jonathan Ukah—Poetry by Jonathan Ukah, London, England, UK—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CASEPARATIONI can see your tears now, My everlasting mirror, Clear from the shores...
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