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Shoelaces and Eight-Stone Weaklings
 —Poetry by Mike Hickman, York, England —Sketches Courtesy of Public DomainTODAY, JEFFREY BOILS IS MOSTLY ANGRY WITH . . . Today, Jeffrey Boils is mostly angry with: The number of eyelets in his...
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A Glimpse of Blessing
  —Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And then scroll down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday!!WONDER-WANDER I love mysteries before they’re solved—the journey sweeter than the arrival—things...
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How Autumn Begins
  [autumn begins with something trivial]  —Written by Ella Yevtushenko, translated by Yury Zavadskyautumn begins with something trivial: keys forgotten in another city, silver coins of cough in the...
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Poetry
  POETRY—Marianne Moore (1887-1972)I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.
     Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that...
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Share Your Nonsense If You Dare
 —Poetry by Stephen Kingsnorth, Caschwa (Carl Schwartz) Jerome Berglund, and Joe Nolan    LESS NONSENSE—Stephen Kingsnorth, Coedpoeth, Wrexham, Wales, UKI read so much of nonsense rhymes— think sound...
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Dancing With Reality
 —Poetry and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CACLICKETY CLOCKTime is nowIs forward, backward, frozen,Moment by indecisive moment,Endless.Time travels : tick tock Instant interruptive—May...
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Erased By The Wind
 —Poetry by Sushant Thapa, Biratnagar, Nepal—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAMEDLEYBlowing like the fiery wind Rolling like the brakeless stone Waking for the restlessness Standing like a mountain...
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The Game of the Earth
 —Poetry by J. D. Nelson, Colorado—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joe Nolan, Stockton, CAa fish using stars to win a wheelon the largest of the normal earthsthe crawling egg of the saint...
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Fallaciloquent or Phlyarologist?
—Poetry by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And then scroll down for Form Fiddlers' Friday!!CALL IT STORK'S-BILLThis used to be sheep pasture.What grows here now? My plant-app says it’s Stork’s-bill but...
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Hip Concerto
 —Poetry by Brian Fugett, Dayton, OH—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joe Nolan, Stockton, CASATURDAY MORNING CARTOONSThe living roomis blaringwith the clamorof Saturday morningcartoons.I’m hunchedon...
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Every Poem
—Poetry by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA—Photos by Caschwa, Sacramento, CA  Quartet of words, Arguments and pleas—squabbles and pronouncements—all we use to entreat and tease—lawyers of opinions,ministers...
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Swing for the Fences
 Now what do you do? This Kermode has lifted her snout from her feast of salmon and acknowledges you. What now? —Poetry by Michael Ceraolo, Joe Nolan, Stephen Kingsnorth, and Caschwa (Carl...
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Ghost Songs
 In a Stretch of the Mind—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHOSE SONGS KEPT FOREVER OUT OF HEARINGI have dreamed them, soft as lullabies from ache of childhood,songs that come in...
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Innocense and Little Red Wagons
—Poetry by Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CA—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CA  LITTLE RED WAGONOur family lived in early Berkeley hillsamid long grass and wild animals. Here I nearly caused my mother to...
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Mariah
 —Poetry by Don Thompson, Buttonwillow, CA—San Joaquin Valley Photos Courtesy of Public DomainNESTS Birds no more vocal and yetit could be another spring if anecdotal evidence of leaf budsconvinces...
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Poetry Primavera
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And then scroll down to FORM FIDDLERS’ FRIDAY!!!   FROM ASHESWhat conjured up these ashes on the deck?Ashes soft as stuff of dreams I’d look back on...
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The Child on the Hill
—Poetry by Michael H. Brownstein, Jefferson City, MO—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joe Nolan, Stockton, CA   VIRUS MUTANT !6It was never the smell that got to you first,but the ripeness in tissue...
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Missing Link
 —Public Domain Photo Courtesy of Joe NolanTHERE’S TROUBLE WITH THE LINK—Joe Nolan, Stockton, CASomething You saidHas made me think.What was it you saidBefore Our callHad dropped?Muted, though the...
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Life in Dreams
 —Poetry by Shiva Neupane, Saheli Roy Coudhury, Caschwa (Carl Schwartz), and Joe Nolan—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joe Nolan, Stockton, CA   A POEM FROM AUSTRALIA —Shiva Neupane, Melbourne,...
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Prisoners
 The Necklace—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAYOU BRING IT HOME IN YOUR HANDSThere is an hourknown as love.It flutters about in the heartlike a little lost bird.You bring it home in your...
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