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Eternity Dresses in Purple
—Photos and Poems by D.R. Wagner, LockeBEING CALLED FROM AFARI have lived there so often.The shoes I wear, coveredWith a vocabulary of light that I have found impossible to abandon.I open my mouth to...
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Crystal Stair
MOTHER TO SON—Langston HughesWell, son, I'll tell you:Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.It's had tacks in it,And splinters,And boards torn up,And places with no carpet on the floor—Bare.But all...
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Boots, Bugs, & Burqas
Sunlight—Photo by D.R. Wagner, LockeCOLD CASE—Jane Blue, SacramentoIn the deli she goes through the cold case like a criminalinvestigation that’s hit a dead end.Now she’s jittery on the patio in the...
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Still Walking Young
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoWALKING YOUNG (After "Mother and Daughter Barcelona, 1900" by Picasso)Prissy and Missy go for a dance-walk down the strutting avenue in...
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Gluttenous Dragon Fingers
Late Apples—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisHE POINTS OUT THE BREVITY OF LIFE, UNTHINKING AND SUFFERING, SURPRISED BY DEATH—Francisco Gomez de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645)My yesterday was dream, tomorrow...
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As Daphne In A Tree
Derek WalcottDEREK WALCOTT'S DAY (Jan. 23)—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAI audited your classnot having knowna St. Lucian poet beforewith such tidal Caribbean blue motioning waves as floating...
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So Much We Don't See...
Straight Out Scribes reading at SPC Monday, Jan. 20—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoACCORDING TO SCIENCE—Caschwa, SacramentoLook up "fire" to find it is a form of oxidation, then look up "oxygen"...
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Replacing The Moon
Giraffe—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeOUTSIDE ALBUQUERQUEThat night we found the moonBroken in half at the bottomOf a small ravine near the baseOf the Sandia Mountains Outside...
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Elfin Prayer Wheet
Mary RudgeRUDGE THE GREAT—Tom Goff, CarmichaelAlameda, a city I rarely visit, but notablethe choice occasions: young barely fledgedorchestral trumpet, I gaze on in silence and awe:our Alameda community...
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Then What?
Sacramento Poet Anna Marie in a recent readingat Sac. Poetry Center—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoOFTEN I WASTE MY TIME SPELUNKING WITH THE DEAD —James Lee Jobe, Davis Within my aging chest lies...
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Journeys of the Moment
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoCARTOGRAPHY“That the science of cartography is limited” —Eavan BolandSometimes I have to read you again, old map, to find...
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If Only...
Blink—Photo by Taylor GrahamBLINK’S BLUE WISH—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleIf he could have just one thing,make it a rubber band.Only a kitten could find onein this shambles of an office. A bluerubber...
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The Jasmine of Time
—Poems and Photos by Martie Odell Ingebretsen, SacramentoANSERIFORMEAbove flowing brown waterspast the last minutes of sun’s lightthe geese hold a ribbon of soundthat takes me with them into evening...
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Affinity
Jennifer Elise Foerster, reading at Sac. Poetry Center last Monday, Jan. 27.—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoMUSIC AND LIFE ON THE RIVER—Ann Menebroker, Sacramentothis river moves so slowly it...
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A Bagful of Dreams
Sphere—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeSOMEWHERE A STAR FALLSI write a stillness in the whitest of snowThat it be a temple where we may rest.I write the river, dark against the snowAs the beak of...
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In the Garden of My Heart
DESIRE—Alice WalkerMy desire is always the same; wherever Life deposits me: I want to stick my toe & soon my whole body into the water. I want to shake out a fat broom & sweep dried leaves...
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Not Yet On Empty
Barn Wood—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisDEALING WITH MYSTERY—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleMy gas gauge slipped toward emptyon the long, deserted, dead-end road. Butwe had a tail-wind that brought usto a...
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What We Cannot Have
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHE BEAUTIFUL SAVAGES(After "The Beautiful Savages" by Georges Barber)Love flaunts by—out of reach, in a lure of three: dancers, or models of costume,...
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Where the Hell's the Tule Fog???
Cody in Indian Brush—Photo by Taylor GrahamDRY WINTER—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleOur ground is a dusty hog stretchedunder cloudless sky. Thirsty. He should berooting in mud, a glory of muck.In my mind’s...
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A Man of Blue Regret
Improvisation 19 —Painting by Wassily KandinskyIMPROVISATION 19(after the painting by Wassily Kandinsky)—Neil Ellman, Livingston, NJThey are not what they seemnot even if held in the palm of a hand—the...
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