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Blessed Hope
Hermit ThrushTHE DARKLING THRUSH—Thomas Hardy I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray,And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day.The tangled bine-stems scored the...
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Party Hearty!
Winter Oaks—Photo by Taylor GrahamDORFSTRAßE—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleIt hid up in the foothills that drew trees aboutthem against cold, preparing for a mountainwinter. What was left of ancient...
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The Edge of the New Year
—Photo by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHE EDGES OF ART —Joyce Odam, Sacramento(after the Art Work of Jaune Quick-to-See-Smithin “A Breeze Swept Through” by Luci Tapahonso)I - She Enters The RitualIt is...
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Only A Night...
—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisNEW YEAR'S MORNING—Helen Hunt Jackson Only a night from old to new!Only a night, and so much wrought!The Old Year's heart all weary grew,But said: "The New Year rest has...
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Back to Work
John Allen Kant reading at Sac Poetry CenterMonday, Dec. 30 —Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoBACK TO WORK—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAWhether working with cedar wood repairinga shaky staircase or...
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Empty Nights & Min-Pins
—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochNEW YEAR'S EVE, 2013—Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CAThe new year ravagesthe wider worldwith gunshots,firecrackers. Dogs howl,sirens scream.In the City, calendar...
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The Waves of Our Lives
—Poems by D.R. Wagner, LockeTHE GARDEN OF PARADISEWe are unable to proceed any further without extremeHelp. There are no visions here. What people we haveEncountered are without usable dreams and can...
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Forever At Attention
—Photo by Kathy Kieth, Diamond Springsfrom ELEVEN ADDRESSES TO THE LORD—John BerrymanIMaster of beauty, craftsman of the snowflake,inimitable contriver,endowed of Earth so gorgeous & different from...
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Birth of a Lamb
—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisBACK TO WORK: JANUARY 6—Michael Cluff, Corona, CAZoe Charlesexits the Tenth Street tunneland pulls into the through laneto Sycamore Plaza.The manners of shoppershave not...
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Deciduous Years
Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoWOMAN ARRANGING DAISIESHer arranging hands catch in a held position as some thought happens and all the forces of the moment fix timelessly together in level...
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Meeting Marilyn on the Bus
Frankensurfer—Photo by D.R. Wagner, LockeWITH MY BZ NOTEBOOK—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA With my BZ notebookin tense formon my lap in my high school weekendswaiting for the busgoing from Bostonto the...
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On The Bus
—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisWINTER TWILIGHT AT THE BUS STOP—Ann Wehrman, Sacramentoheavy, dark, coldmy gloves in my pocket, roughing itpack filled with groceries cuts into my shouldersat the traffic...
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Poems On The Bus
—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochBUS RIDE TO HELL—James Lee Jobe, DavisThis highway goes on and on, and the bus never stops.Above—dust and clouds, sure, but also a kind of fear that beaten dogs...
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White Drums & White Thigh Bones
Poetry Reading[Annie Menebroker reading, Mikey West's beer at left]—Photos and Poems by D.R. Wagner, LockeAN EMINENCE (for Lisa)When I have found no open notesIn the sound of the...
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Follow Your Nose
The Olympus—Painting by Abraham Janssens, 1575-1632SEGUE O TEU DESTINO—Fernando PessoaFollow your nose,Water your plants,Love your roses.All else is the shadeOf alien wildwood.Always the actualEither...
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Dancing in the Parking Lot
Cornerstone Gardens, Sonoma—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoAT THE BUS STOP —Michael Cluff, Corona The black lady in a twenty-month-old blanketbespattered by San Bernardino smognearly touches...
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Third Seat on the Right
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHE VIOLET AWNINGSLook at them, under the violet awnings. They are crudely blent, standing like children’s drawings in a blue storm. Their round wet faces...
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Redwings
—Photo by Katy BrownWHITE DRUMS—Katy Brown, DavisFrom beyond a curtained aurora,they advance—beating their white drums witha poet’s white thigh bones—barefoot,not touching the ground:these red-winged...
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Stormy
Storm Down —Poems and Photos by Martie Odell-Ingebretsen, SacramentoSTORM DOWNBring me thunder,stake this thick air to the groundto the ground with a sizzling sword,dazzle with drenching this braided...
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Made For Walkin'
A Pair of Shoes—Drawing by Vincent van GoghSHOE BOOTS SHOWING—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAVan Gogh had four drawingof shoe bootsall green-black in the 1880'sand Andy Warhol's Factoryturned out in the...
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