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This 1¢ Life
Lithograph by Robert Indiana—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoA POET AT LAX—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAEveryone has a pulseraised for music,as this poet at LAXtries to feel aliveafter...
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The Poet-Mirror
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoMY LIFE IN THE MIRRORAvailable in stone,this warp, this pure intention, my life in the mirror, changing as I change,this daydream made of mind-want,this day...
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Especially the Bagpiper
Art Mantecon reading at Red Alice's Poetry EmporiumShine Cafe, Sacramento, April 22—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoFRAGMENTS IN A BOX—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleAt least, I imagine it’s a...
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Sister
—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochTRANSITIONS—Marchell Dyon Jefferson, ChicagoYou were not prepared for this day.The day when your mother’s neighbor calledYou about your sister’s strange...
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Time to Cash That Check
Eric QuerternousMOTIVATION—2014—Eric Quertermous, FairfieldWhy is it that I always find comfort and safetywhile I am behind the keys of my typewriter?What is it about putting fingers over keys,relaxing...
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Another Spring in the Garden
Kim's Garden—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke17 BLACK SWANS for Kathy Kieth1. We found the bones In a perfect circle.Each had been painted blackWith red ends. In the center,A small...
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To Be Held by the Ocean
BUOYANCY—RumiLove has taken away my practicesand filled me with poetry.I tried to keep quietly repeating,No strength but yours,but I couldn't.I had to clap and sing. I used to be respectable and chaste...
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Garden of Secrets
Fire Engine Bell—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisIN MY SECRET PATCH—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAOutside naturethe gnomethat inhabitsthe hideout gardenof a votary's vacationcasts an aura on metrading in my...
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More Secrets
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHE AWFUL SECRET (after Aubrey Beardsley Cover Design from “The Savoy” #5)whispering to herin the twilight garden, holding herto the intensity of his...
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Death's Day Off
Black Swan Resting a Foot—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisCOMPASS ROSE—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleThey say he placed two long-bones in the sandto form a cross, and with his forefingerdrew a moving arc, tip to...
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Crossings
Today's Crop —Poems and Photos by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochPAPER CARSIt is night Beside the graveled shoulder on a curved road that was never there I discern fresh scat of some harmless predator The...
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Do We Dance?
Featured Reader Phillip Larrea at Sac. Poetry CenterLast Monday, May 5—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoMY SECRET GARDEN(A Bus Poem)—Ann Wehrman, Sacramentoon the bus, 100-degree day I sweat in...
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I Shall Be Your Tongue
Egyptian Surfers—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeMORE LIGHTSuddenly he didn’t know how it would end.Lights began to flash a mad semaphore.He could hear the bullets whiz past his ears.The water...
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Working the Garden
MATINS—Louise GlückUnreachable father, when we were firstexiled from heaven, you madea replica, a place in one sensedifferent from heaven, beingdesigned to teach a lesson: otherwisethe same—beauty on...
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Ashes' Memory
Fire plug—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAand Photos by Katy Brown, DavisTHE FIRE—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAMy Russianneighbor did anabstractcalled 'The Fire'with facesin anger of those...
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Braver Than The Wind
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento FIRE POEMO welcome to me now.You have remembered meand are here.Come close to the fire.I am cold.Hold my hands.They are shaking to touch you.Dry the rain...
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Lipstick Just Right
—Artwork by Taylor MarieOUT OF WORK—Caroline Swanson, SacramentoWho is worried about moneyI’ll void my wallet, if you need money, it’s yoursDo you have a credit card? Do you HaveA credit card?The seer...
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Dreaming Each Other's Dream
Inside Barn—Photo by Taylor Graham WHERE THE SPRING DRIES—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleEarly morning May. The air’s a wall of glassover fields of brittling grasses dying.Another year of drought. The...
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Ashes
—Poems and Photos by Martie Odell Ingebretsen, SacramentoI HEARD IT ON THE NEWSLong after the edgesof the newspaperinnocent and open on the tablehad become scalloped then curledThe silver handle of a...
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Go Buy Me Laughter
Lion Dance—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockePAST THE GATEGreat cloud masses.The rivers in the WestFar below the escarpment A glittering line, twisting.Sometimes the air is so thickIt would be...
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