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Glass Walls of the Years
The Changing Colors—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA I NAME MYSELF WINTER I go against the world today, put all my forceagainst its cold, pull on the layers to protect,name...
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Harmonies and Jingle Bells
Cradle-Crescent Moon—Poetry and Photos by Carol Eve Ford, Kenai, AKWINTER CAMPWhen all was still, and dark,a bare sliver of moon slid up the sky,offering less illuminationthan the glorious host of...
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A Stable Place
—Poetry by Stephen Kingsnorth, Coedpoeth, Wrexham, Wales —Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CATIME AGAINIt’s Christmas time that’s here again.It seems, advent, Timelord to...
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Moonbeams on Christmas Eve
Moon Over Placerville—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And scroll down to Form Fiddlers' Friday!! TWELVE-WINTERS’ TIME We’ve lived on these acres for twelve-winters’time and...
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Christmas Trees I Didn't Know I Had
—Public Domain Photo Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CA CHRISTMAS TREES—Robert Frost (1874-1963)(A Christmas Circular Letter)The city had withdrawn into itselfAnd left at last the country to the...
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Any Place Can Become Home
bell hooks (1952-2021) APPALACHIAN ELEGY (Sections 1-6) —bell hooks 1. hear them crythe long deadthe long gonespeak to usfrom beyond the graveguide usthat we may learnall the waysto hold tender this...
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When You're Having Fun . . .
—Original Artwork by Norman J. Olson, Maplewood, MN—Poetry by Joseph Nolan, Stephen Kingsnorth, Caschwa (Carl Schwartz), and Michael Ceraolo—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CA...
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The Moon is a Clock
Only Your Perfection—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA LATEReams of light unfolding over the landscape—the long way to anywhere, the time it takes to get there,the silence in the car,...
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Balance
—Poetry by Linda Klein, Playa Vista, CA—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain IN THE EVENINGFaint sporadic voices coming from the street,the words are indiscernible, but it doesn't matter.They belong to...
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Embrace Your Shadows
—Poetry by Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CA—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain CAR AS UMBRELLA Shielded from a misty rain awaiting a friend’s return, I watch the windshield’s willy-nillyness with water, how...
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Secrets of the Dark
—Poetry by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And scroll down for FORM FIDDLERS’ FRIDAY!!CANDLE QUESTIONS Golden Shovel from Sylvia Plath’s “Candles” In this blackout night, the upside of flame...
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More Time, More Time
YEAR’S END —Richard Wilbur (1921-2017)Now winter downs the dying of the year, And night is all a settlement of snow;From the soft street the rooms of houses show A gathered light, a shapen...
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Tree Speak
—Poetry and Artwork by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, West Covina, CA BECAUSE I WASTE WORDSBecause I waste words,I could be considered dumb.I like to think otherwise.I am not one who hoardswords like...
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Which Side The Norm?
—Poetry by Caschwa (Carl Schwartz), Stephen Kingsnorth, Joseph Nolan, Claire J. Baker—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan THIS GOES WAY BACK —Caschwa, Sacramento, CABefore the miracle of my...
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New Beginnings
The Occasion of Life—Poetry and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA SONG FOR A NEW BEGINNINGIn the great brim of morningI feel a bird about to singI know that its song will fallupon the...
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What It Looks Like
—Poetry by Mike Hickman, York, UK—Photos Courtesy of Public DomainTHIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE The Bill Bryson book about the history of human achievement is three books down in a pile that also...
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Following the Swallow's Trails
—Poetry by Chibuike Ukah, London, England—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain SWALLOW’S TRAILSI think of him sitting in the dusty junkWhere he peddles his transparent curtainsSome say he is the macerated...
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Don't Call it Normal!
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA —And scroll down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday!! NEW NORMAL SHADORMA a retrospective A shakeup to our way of life—spring cleaning gone extreme: wash...
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Perfect-est Perfection
—Poetry from Michael Brownstein, Jefferson City, MO—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain CHRISTMAS EVE ON ASH STREETThe day before Christmas there was a glorious silence.Even the meth house next door...
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Like a Waveless Ocean
—Poetry by Sushant Thapa, Biratnagar, Nepal—Photos of Nepal from “75 Nepal Quotes To Make You Love The Roof of the World” by Reshma Narasing PROCLAMATIONI keep growing like wild flowers I keep...
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