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You Are My Bird
 —Poetry by Sushant Thapa, Biratnagar, Nepal—Photos Courtesy of Public DomainYOU ARE MY BIRDIn creating your idolI will leave something from my side.Take my wishesAnd be mute.Just talk with your eyes.I...
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Continental Drift
 —Poetry by Joe Nolan, Nolcha Fox, Caschwa, Sayani Mukherjee, Stephen Kingsnorth, Kevin Jones—Public Domain Photos Courtesyof Joe Nolan and Nolcha FoxCONTINENTAL DRIFT—Joe Nolan, Stockton, CAI cut the...
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Turning Into Winter
The Night of Missing Stars—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam,Sacramento, CABIRDLESS SKIESdark moon   lost in night of missing stars, of sky-windsthat threaten to tear the sky with a grittinessof sounds...
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Life-Charge
 —Poetry by Dr. Anissa Sboui, Sousse, Tunisia—Photos Courtsy of Public DomainMY BODY IS NOT A BRIDGEMy body is not a bridge To tread on like grass. My body is not a fridge To open and shut Without any...
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Marginalia
 —Poetry by JD DeHart, Chattanooga, TN—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain PREDATORS ARE OFTEN SILENT Of course, we had no idea such teeth were set just at the boundaryof quiet tree line.Who might have...
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Scrapbooks of the Mind
 Patti Farrington at Wakamatsu Farm Tea House —Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham,Placerville, CA—And then scroll down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday!!TEA AND POETRYIn garden of the historicSilk and Tea...
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Water Babies
—Poetry by Lynn White, Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan,Stockton, CA A BLUE WHALELook at them all swimming round metaunting me waving their legs at me...
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Sploosh!
 —Public Domain Photo by Tamas Pap—Poetry by Nolcha Fox, Buffalo, WYbreakfastis a bowl of chronic stress, full ofpebbleslookingfor a shoe.(prev. pub. on Diphthong Lit)    —Public Domain Photo by Samuel...
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Cantankerous
 —Poetry by Stephen Kingsnorth, Joe Nolan,Nolcha Fox, Michael Ceraolo, Sayani Mukherjee, Caschwa (Carl Schwartz) and Rus Khomutoff—Public Domain Photos Courtesy ofJoe Nolan and Nolcha Fox...
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The Rain-Walkers
 Swim Around the Shadows—Photo by Robin Odam, Sacramento, CA—Poetry by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA THE RAIN-WALKERS 1. This is a long poem I must write on a continuous roll of paper. I will roll it and...
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Watering Those Seeds
 —Poetry from Laura Stamps, Columbia, S. Carolina—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain   Postcards to Herself  Postcards. She loves them. Yet nobody sends them. Not anymore. But why? A pretty postcard. In...
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Gray Days in Cleveland
   Warlore —Poetry and Visuals by Smith  (Steven B. Smith), Cleveland, OH   Sitting in the low-light morningof another Cleveland grey dayrain rapping roof soothing this beast at leasttwo clocks...
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Cantankery
 —Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham,  Placerville, CA—And then scroll down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday!!   RAIN’S BAD LIGHT FOR BIRDINGThat contrary bird is back—shifty of name, gray-camouflaged...
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Undoing the Veil
 —Poetry by Josh Crummer, Zilwaukee, MI—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain   RAT RACE GHAZALAfter Martin Scorcese’s The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
I left my wife my kids my college friends— Goodbye,...
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Harvest
 —Poetry by Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CA —Photos Courtesy of Public DomainDOUBLE HELIX     blank verseWithin the spirals of life’s rousing ridewe carry DNA and spirit prints,plus drama, foibles,...
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Whispers, Purrs and Hums
—Poetry by Shiva Neupane, Stephen Kingsnorth, Nolcha Fox, Sayani Mukherjee, Caschwa (Carl Schwartz), and Joe Nolan—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joe Nolanand Stephen KingsnorthTHE FUEL OF...
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Just Before the Memory
 It Was Early or Late—Poetry and Photos by Robin Gale Odam, Sacramento, CA  FOR MY DIARYi woke to the edits of morning,removed the lid from his bottle ofaftershave, moistened my fingersand drew them...
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Rest Your Weary Heart
 —Poetry and Artwork by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal,West Covina CA   ALL THE ALLERGIESI have all the allergies.Almonds will cause certain death.The medicine you prescribe will kill me.The dusty streets...
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Gathering
 —Poetry by Linda Klein, Playa Vista, CA—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain   TO CATCH A POEMIt floats in the air around me,illusive, nearly invisible,leaving me confusedas to whether it is...
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Pearls in the Woodpile
 —Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham,Placerville, CA—And then scroll down for Form Fiddlers’ Friday!!   THANK YOU Into the cold morning I walked out burdened by news of the world— I looked up across...
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