This Moveable Life
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And then scroll down to Form Fiddlers’ Friday!! PARASOL PARAPLUIEBetween sun and rainan abandoned umbrella—a bird sings morning.This...
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—Poetry by Jean Jones, Wilmington, NC—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain MODERN-DAY VAMPIREYou are my friend, And you do things for meNo one else does, But when you bend over meAnd instruct me to keepAn...
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Amos Russel Wells (1862-1933)—Public Domain PhotoTHE SUNDIAL, CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR—Amos Russel Wells (1862-1933)The Sundial said to the Daylight-Saving Clock: "I stand for Truth as steady as a...
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—Poetry by Caschwa (Carl Schwartz), Stephen Kingsnorth, Joe Nolan—Photos by Carl Schwartz THAT DANG TIME CHANGE —Caschwa, Sacramento, CAopening skies opium eyes even the gnus spread the news we know...
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Opening the Sky—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA THIS DARK-SKY MORNINGwobble-voiced again—old morning roosterwhat does he crow about—ruling the silencewith his unmelodic and somehow...
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—Poetry by Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CA—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CA MYSTICAL JOURNEY This train stops for lunch. On the last food break a passenger found a silver dollar worth a fortune. At one...
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In the Beginning—Poetry and Visuals by Smith (Steven B. Smith), Cleveland, OHThe snow dropsthe sun shinesthe dog messes the yardPains comenot all goaccumulation tangoRock, meet hillhill, meet rockI'll...
View ArticleShaking Off Sleep
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And then scroll down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday!!UNDER AN OPENING SKY Come see what magic March has done, its wind that rattles cattail bones over...
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“Did none of us even scent the whiff of pus…”—Poetry by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Public Domain PhotosUKRAINE (I)(a futile protest) Disastrous rhythm, the heavy and mobile masses, the dance of...
View ArticleA [Late] Nod to St. Patrick's Day
Innisfree, Lough Gill, County Sligo, Ireland—Public Domain PhotoTHE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE—William Butler YeatsI will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,And a small cabin build there, of clay and...
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—Poetry by Marie Asner, Stephen Kingsnorth, Caschwa (Carl Schwartz), Michael Ceraolo, and Joe Nolan—This Photo Courtesy of Public DomainDAY BEFORE SPRING—Marie Asner, Overland Park, KSOur kayaks float...
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On Two Sides—Poetry, Photos and Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA BLUE FIRE AND RED SKY As trees through blue fire sputter and moan, their branches tangling,their roots in a lessening...
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Light On The Wall —Poetry by Stephen Kingsnorth, Coedpoeth, Wrexham, Wales—This Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CASIGHT VISITS SONNETIn space, clock turn, a trinity describes my timeshare,...
View ArticlePoems Between the Lines
(Sometimes silence is best...) _________________ —Medusa —Artwork Courtesy of Public Domain
View ArticleClearing the Firethorn
Pyracantha (Firethorn)—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And then scroll down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday! A LOCAL VIEWThe lovely firethorn that succumbed last year,renouncing green...
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Northern Flicker With Tongue —Poetry by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Flicker Photos Courtesy of Public DomainFEATHER-HAMMER A feather-hammer gives a double knock. —Robert Frost...
View ArticleThat Thing With Feathers
—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CA “Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314) —Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)“Hope” is the thing with feathers—That perches in the soul—And sings the tune without the...
View ArticleLooking Into Someone Else's Woods
—Public Domain Photo Courtesy of Joe Nolan —Poetry by Stephen Kingsnorth,Caschwa (Carl Schwartz) Harold AsnerJoe Nolan Michael Ceraolo BODY PARTS—Stephen Kingsnorth, Coedpoeth, Wrexham, Wales,...
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The Composition—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CARED GHOSTS emanating out of the last rim of sunset—arms raised in gestures that could be imploring someone to save them, or waving last...
View ArticleEars to Listen, Eyes to See
—Poetry by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal, West Covina, CA—Original Photos by Luis Berriozabal and CaschwaFIND THE DARKNESSI find the darkness when I head out to work at fivein the morning.The stars and...
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