Finding Each Other
 Loki Meditating—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham,Placerville, CA—And then scroll down forForm Fiddlers’ Friday!!   EXPLAINING DEATH TO MY DOG      Loki responds to complete sentences. Her eyes...
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 Peter Witt—Poetry by Peter Witt, College Station, TX—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain   I REMEMBERI. I remember when I played in the sand at the beach, each seashell a fascination, each airhole left...
View ArticlePearls of Wisdom
 —Poetry by Cheryl Snell, Glenn Dale, MD—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain   SORROWIt’s in the details: you standing on the other side of your snapped connection, waiting for the static to subside. It’s...
View ArticleWarm Lights On Cold Winter Days
 Lighting Up The Darkness—Public Domain Photo —Poetry by Michael H. Brownstein, Ann Privateer, Stephen Kingsnorth, Caschwa, Joe Nolan, andNolcha Fox—Original Photos by Ann Privateer—Public Domain...
View ArticleThe Old Rag of Time
 Long-Awaited January—Poetry by Joyce Odam and Robin Gale Odam, Sacramento, CA—Photos by Robin Gale Odam  ABOUT DECEMBER—Joyce OdamDecember comes and goes,an old switch of time that flows and flows...
View ArticleYou Got Electricity!
 —Poetry by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal,West Covina, CA—Original Photos and Art by Luis Berriozabal   YOU GOT ELECTRICITY After David Bowie Alligator tears,you turn them on when the moment...
View ArticleI Am the Sky and the Ocean
 —Poetry by Linda Klein, Playa Vista, CA—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain   CONSPIRATORSWe would sneak awayin the middle of the nighttelling no one we were leavingor where we were going.You would drive...
View ArticleStriking A Match—Lighting Up The Darkness
 —Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And then scroll down forForm Fiddlers’ Friday!!   DIMINISHING OCTAVESpotlight on the white dog leapingthru an ever-moving hoop,vine-twining a...
View ArticleCarols from the Christmas Crow
 —Poetry by Lynn White, Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain   FATHER CHRISTMAS
I was so excited.It was nearly Christmasand I was going to meetFather Christmas himself.I...
View ArticleWill I Know Them?
 —Poetry by Stephen Kingsnorth, Coedpoeth, Wrexham, Wales—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain   THE HOSTAngels from the realms of glory,are you passing in the street?God, creator and sustainer,you’re met...
View ArticleHope is the Elixir
    —Poetry by Mary McGrath, Stephen Kingsnorth,Nolcha Fox, Michael H. Brownstein,J.I. Kleinberg, Sayani Mukherjee,Caschwa, Joe Nolan and Shiva Neupane—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joe NolanIN MY...
View ArticleTime's Bells
 The Way Through Winter—Poetry by Joyce Odam and Robin Gale Odam, Sacramento, CA—Photos by Robin Gale Odam   IT'S GRAY OUT—Joyce OdamThis day's gray, the air cold and bleary, time slowing through...
View ArticleThe Mirror's Gaze
  Tyler Zaremba and Pal —Poetry by Tyler Zaremba, Central Texas—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain   pacing bya solar flaregripping myselfI turn back Undiagnosed.* * *depression is better except for...
View ArticleMelting From Love
 Joshua Baby Tree—Photo by Petrouchka Alexieva—Poetry by Petrouchka Alexieva, Los Angeles, CA—Other Photos Courtesy of Public Domain   WITH CROWN OF HIS OWN Driving to Victorville early this...
View ArticleFrozen Fields and the Nanny-Goat
 —Poetry by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And then scroll down forForm Fiddlers’ Friday!!   IN SPITE OF LIGHT POLLUTION The neighbor to the east across the swale has hit the switch for his...
View ArticleSaying Goodbye to December
 Euclid Creek Reservation, Ohio—Poetry by Michael Ceraolo, South Euclid, OH —Photos Courtesy of Public Domain   Two Excerpts from Euclid Creek Book Four:PALIMPSEST NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE CREEKOn a...
View ArticleJanuary: Sommelier of Snow
 —Visual Poetry by J.I. Kleinberg, Bellingham, WA(Click on pix to enlarge.)    * * *        _________________Today’s LittleNip:Hope smiles from the threshold of the new year to come, whispering, “It...
View ArticleOld Fashioned Joy
 —Public Domain Photo Courtesy of Joe Nolan —Poetry by Claire J. Baker, Nolcha Fox,Stephen Kingsnorth, Joe Nolan,Sayani Mukherjee, Keith Snow—Public Domain Photos Courtesy ofJoe Nolan, Nolcha Fox, and...
View ArticleTurning the Page
 For My Promise—Photos by Robin Gale Odam—Poetry by Joyce Odam and Robin Gale Odam, Sacramento, CA   TURN THE PAGE—Robin Gale OdamLast yellow December rose,saved from frost, cut tenderly formy crystal...
View ArticleSlicing the Sunlight
 —Poetry by Nolcha Fox, Buffalo, WY—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Nolcha Fox   This day is the startof the endof daylight savings time.Time isbackward andupside down,a waterfallof bouncy balls....
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