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Is This Another Ghost Tour?
—Photo by Ann PrivateerPERSPECTIVE—Ann Privateer, DavisRecess, a break from formulasand books, hanging out with teacher.Going back I rode my bikeflying on the bicycle laneall going the same direction.A...
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The Dandelion of Easy Plains
Blink Admires the Bushtit—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, PlacervilleSPRING CRAZYThe thinnest glass between catand bird; between bushtit and his ownreflection in the window.Tiny bird I’ve only seen...
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Olympic Gestures
Donal MahoneyTHE LOVELY WOMEN OF MY LIFE—Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MOIf I met the same women nowI probably wouldn't know them.They're missing teeth, I bet,and have gray Medusa hair. Their eyes no...
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Devouring Our Own Hearts
Machinery, Locke, California—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeTRIGGER WARNINGThis poem may containDepictions of suicideOr describe medical procedures,Skulls or skeletons.It may contain the...
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Like the Truth on Fire
—Photo by James Lee JobeA PRAYER IN SPRINGTIME—James Lee Jobe, DavisI pray that the stars in heaven might be laid on velvet before Your feet, like jewels, like the wish that follows the dream, diamonds...
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Covered by Bird Song
Summer Garden Spirit—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA and Artwork by Jennifer O'Neill Pickering, SacramentoSPRING'S FIRST DAYStaring at Warhol printson my branch of a calendarpurchased from the...
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A Contentment of Promise
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoSHOULD I BELIEVE IN SPRINGI heard the birds singing todayunder my sadnessand I said,Should I believe in spring?Permit feeling?And the birds were obliviousto...
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Busy Days
—Poems by William S. Gainer, Grass Valley and Photos by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochSPRING—BUSY DAYSSaw the squirrelwalking acrossthe shed roof.I waved.He looked busy,too busyto wave...
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The Wind's a Coyote
—Photo by Christopher MoonHOT PINK AT 11pm—Carol Louise Moon, SacramentoAll I did all afternoonwith all those hot pink beadswas make hot pink bead necklaceafter hot pink bead bracelet,until my mind is...
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Life Creates Life
Ann Keniston, reading at Sac. Poetry Center last Monday night, March 24—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoI got a video from email "How to train your cat"They've got to be kidding—The majority of...
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Lucid Dreaming
Abandoned Shell Sign—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeMEANINGIt was a clarity that hadNowhere to go, the perfectWord held on the lipsJust a moment too long,So that its meaning was changed.A second...
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Climb the Wind
I HEAR YOU'VE LET GO—Rosario Ferré I hear you've let go now listenwhen you walk down the streeteveryone points a finger at your...
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Without Rhyme or Reason
Red Feathers—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA, with Photos by Katy Brown, DavisWITHOUT RHYME OR REASONWithout rhyme or reasonour dusty eyes on mating groundsfor tourists and friendswe hear a...
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Child Knows What Fears Become
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHE POET MENTIONS HER CHILDRENShe has such children,such children,hidden in bibles and prayers,hidden under blanket-tentspulled over chairs,hidden in the...
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This Butterfly Life
—Poems and Photos by Martie Odell-Ingebretsen, SacramentoIN SEARCH OF DESTINYI can see the path turning,though beyond is hiddenby a cliff of delicate fern,with plume and gracethey reach in knowing and...
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The Seams of Non-Sequitur
Connie Post, reading at last Monday's MIND Institute Benefit—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoSATURDAY BEFORE DAWN—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleBeautiful are the pale round squashes that grow mammoth...
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The Garden of Envy
Carol Bales Mahoney—Photo by Donal MahoneyWHEN MY WIFE IS IN HER GARDEN—Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MOWhen my wife is in her garden, she becomes a ballerinamoving with the morning breeze through...
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Vision Trader
Rose in Rain—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeTHE STORY TOLD BY THE NEW MOONI didn’t mean to break it.The moon, barely new,Cracking, then tumbling terribly awry In the night.And we were still...
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Equal To: Not True
—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochARS POETICA —Archibald MacLeish A poem should be palpable and muteAs a globed fruit,DumbAs old medallions to the thumb,Silent as the sleeve-worn stoneOf casement...
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Sheer Poetry
Gears from a printing press owned byRobert Dickover—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA and Photos by Katy Brown, DavisCOUNTRYSIDE SURPRISESIn paper mâché letterswith invisible inkpronouns and...
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