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The Eiderdown of Stars
Pear Detail from "Autumn Garden Spirit"—Poems and Art by Jennifer O'Neill Pickering, SacramentoFIRST HARVEST(after viewing "Pears" by Renaldo Cuneo)Before the skies pepper with fowl the first hard...
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Blue Auras
Creek Rock—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisDOUBLE ABECEDARIAN: ASKING YOU ABOUT LOVE(After Julie Larios in The Best American Poetry, 2006)—Jane Blue, SacramentoAsking you, again, about love and all that...
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Singing to the World
Between Storms—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeMATISSE AT THE MEDITERRANEANThe window open all afternoon.The yellow tablecloth. The sheer whiteCurtains billowing exchanges with the...
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So Which Is It?
Palm in Rain—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisBlank picture canvases were hung up at Arcade Church in Sacramentomeant to be filled up with one word or phrase in response to "God is..."Among inked and...
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As Poe Appears...
Orion is Risen—Photo Manipulation by Robert Lee Haycock, Antioch A DREADED SHADOW—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAJust as I leftwith my pocket radioannouncing the Groundhogsaw his shadowknowing winterhad a...
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Shadow-Dance
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoOVER A SEA OF SHADOWSJoyful, we rise like a cloud of angelsflying a straight line,like geese in their true direction, too high to be seen.Like all the agonies...
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Jewels in the Morning
—Photo by Ann Privateerthere were so manycrumpled stems under our feetwhen we were younger than night *** jewels in the morningrest on petal tips outsideafter we condense our lives *** when...
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Sunsets
—Poems and Photos by Martie Odell-Ingebretsen, SacramentoIN MY WEDDING DRESSI wanted to take a pictureof the sun behind the clouds in my wedding dressall slanted off shoulder with old elasticand mauve...
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Walking With the Truth
Susan Brown, reading at Sac Poetry Centeron Monday, February 24—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoGAMES PEOPLE PLAY—Patricia L. Nichol, Sacramentoold woman walking down the streeta basket full of...
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The Gold That Is The Heart
Late Winter—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeCENOTAPHFirst the smoke was dead blackThen as pure a white as snow mightWish upon itself, quick as a blink.We made our way through the gladeChasing the...
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Sudden Silence
—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochSILENCE—Bella AkhmadulinaWho was it that took away my voice?The black wound he left in my throatCan't even cry.March is at work under the snowAnd the birds of my...
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These March Blues
—Photos of Black Chasm Caverns & Zen Gardenby Michelle Kunert, SacramentoWEATHER WOES—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MADays to hide in your bedsthe weather guys sayswith maps and chartsfrom the...
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I Name Myself
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoMASTS ON A WINDY DAYCrowded into intensity, bobbing in choppy patterns with the mingled movements of the water. Storm coming . . .Storm...
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Springing Forward
Pretty Coffee—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisTIME CHANGE—Charles Mariano, Sacramentoi amfor the most partalmost done it’s March, the end of my latest winter,spring forwardthe clock ticks loudlyover the...
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Seconds Before Melting...
Maximilian, born yesterday—Photo by Taylor Graham, PlacervilleSHORTIES—Caschwa, SacramentoHappy as a snowflakeSeconds before melting^^^I am a coffee addictThere is coffee in my atticWhere I go when I’m...
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Wishing For Roses
—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoLOT'S WIFE—Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)The just man followed then his angel guideWhere he strode on the black highway, hulling and bright;But a wild grief in his...
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The White of Heart Smoke
An Unusual Calla—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockePSORIASISI had been having problems with my skin.It was getting red and shiny with plaque.Recently I had noticed words appearing In the plaque....
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Resurrection
Gold Tulip—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisBULB PLANTING TIME—Edgar Guest Last night he said the dead were dead And scoffed my faith to scorn;I found him at a tulip bed When I passed by at morn."O ho!"...
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Daffodils and Birds
—Our thanks today for these Photos by Robert Lee Haycock, Antioch[click once to enlarge and read titles] and these poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA.IT IS YOUIt is youhiding until this Marchgrounded...
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Trickery of Light
—Poems and Photos by Joyce OdamPOSING HERHe wants her posed in a field of yellow flowers—as if asleep—her black hair prearranged around her ina coif of curls—as if surrendered—as if dead—appearing...
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