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Elegies for Winter
Gone—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochSIX MORE WEEKS—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAThe weather guyin a crew cutcircumspect in his suitknowing it allas prognosticatoron the weather T.V. showtells us to...
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Poetry for the Dead
Glass—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeA CERTAIN KIND OF FREEDOMIt looked like an idea, but it was not attachedTo anything. It looked more like a mantis,Rising up on its back legs, partly...
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Another Day in the Life...
—Poems and Photos by Martie Odell-Ingebretsen, SacramentoTHE CHANGING OF THE CARDNodding my head, I listenacross the counterto the catch in her voice.I don’t know what to say,she says, when I ask,my...
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Rain!
THE GROUNDHOG'S NIGHTMARE—Ann Wehrman, SacramentoTimidly, she ventures forthwhite sun blares into her face—stricken, she races back inside.Biting her lip, sheleans against her burrow’s edge,prophecy...
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Winter Garden
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoBLUE SCENE, LATE AFTERNOON(After painting by Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins)The children are caught in the pose of dancing —the musician in the act of music. The...
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All This Juice
—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisWHEN ANXIETY BLOOMS—Tom Goff, CarmichaelWhen I think I’m the Philip Seymour Hoffmanof my own inner rage and misery,when I find myself stuck with the needle self-accusation,or...
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Flowers Everywhere...
—Poems and Photos by Martie Odell-Ingebretsen, Sacramento ANOTHER DAY IN THE LIFE OF A FLOWER DELIVERY GIRLToday I dressed in feelingscovered my hair in a net of hopeand let it fall over my shouldersI...
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Intoxication, That's What It Is!
OPEN UP—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAOpen upany unfolding chatterthat speaks of lovesend off that cardfull of homemade heartsit does matter,even if that poemis in barely visible words,it's the refreshed...
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Property of the Moment
—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeLIVE: ACOUSTICI am caught in the darkness Near light but still unable to seeWhere it is I am. The blear of nightStumbling close by my footsteps.If I put my hand...
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Glacier Park
Glacier National ParkIN THE PARK—Maxine KuminYou have forty-nine days betweendeath and rebirth if you're a Buddhist.Even the smallest soul could swimthe English Channel in that timeor climb, like a...
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Lives We Live With
Ladybug on My Cabbage—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoPRAIRIE BREEZE—Carol Louise Moon, SacramentoIn grassy fields with lots of gnatswhere prairie longspur sing and nestand bask in warmth of...
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The Ever-Changing Moon
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoYOU USED TO BRING TALL FLOWERS HOMEI haven’t had a flowersince I bought the vase,which is to say,I guess,it never comes out even—none of it:the want—the...
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Philosophers, Professors, Prophets & Reverends
Al Young, Calif. Poet Laureate Emeritus,reading at Sac. Poetry Center last Monday (Feb. 17)to help celebrate Black History Month—Photo by Michelle Kunert, Sacramento INSTRUCTIONS FOR A WRITER'S...
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Embark We Must
Max WestEXCLUSIVE—Max West, SacramentoSheelah, lead singer of the band, leans toward the other members at her table while watching the lone guitarist...
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Every Poem is New
The Isle of Serendib—Photographic Manipulation byRobert Lee Haycock, Antioch MORPHOLOGY(After reading “The Garden Shukkei-en” by Carolyn Forché)—Carlene Wike, Elk Grove As if in double helix, twined...
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Shadows in Love with the Moon
Moon Above the Wires—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeBEFORE LENTI think, ‘The moonlight is thick tonight.’It is not but I think that it is. That maybe,I could hold it in my hand and it would...
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Outside the Lines
Michael J. Cluff1955-2014INTO THE FIRE—Michael Cluff, Corona, CAI will easily admitto slamming Eustacesmack in the headwith that thickblack, dentedfrying pan,Drina said,no smile thoughexcept in her...
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Snagging a Rainbow
frank andrick with David Houston and String Theory at last Thursday's release of the latest issue of Rattlesnake Press's WTF!—Photo by Michelle Kunert, Sacramento GOOD IDEA, KARL MENNINGER—Claire J....
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In the Tiny Room of Our Survival
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoSATINYLike this is some thrill made of cloth,like an urge to touch—sensation of soft,cream-colored,like satin used to beon Jean Harlow, say, before Marilynand...
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Our Wild Ones
A Shadow of Dread—Photo by Taylor GrahamFREE-CLIMB—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleHalfway up the new screen door—its glass slid asidethis first warm day in February,almost-spring of our kitten’s life—Blink...
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