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Smoothies On Thursdays
Swedish Tomte with his Thursday PorridgeSIMPLE DISQUISITION ON EVERYDAY DAEMONS—Kevin Jones, Elk GroveThey’re there.Somehow it sounds More comforting spokenOut loud. Granted, they Can be helpful,...
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Jacob Ladders of Endless Curiosity
Berkeley Pier—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoHEARING GINSBERG'S "HOWL"—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAAfter cotillionin the I like IKE FiftiesUncle Al left our familyas a bohemianand beatnikgrowing a...
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Dreaming of Currents
Falls—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisTHREE GLASSES OF WINE—Jeanine Stevens, Sacramento At the first cup, man drinks wine at the second, wine drinks wine at the third, wine drinks man....
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Fire In Her Eyes
Maya Angelou1928-2014PHENOMENAL WOMAN—Maya AngelouPretty women wonder where my secret lies.I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them,They think I’m telling...
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What Power Is This?
—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeMAY, DRAGON STONE AND GLASSThe ocean drowsing,Waves, as flowers upon the land.The voices have returnedAnd here the bamboo rushesTo the brimming morning, Sweetness...
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Why We Have Wings
Flying Over WisconsinAN INTUITION OF ANGELS—Allegra Silberstein, DavisI have not gone on pilgrimageor lain prostrate before a saintbut long ago on a high hillin Wisconsin, when swollen budsburst from...
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Ideograms of Quiet Language
—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisADOLESCENT HAMS—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MASheltered by bird wingsby the silencebehind trees' first lightspring vacationhangs hours out in Mayon a park bench,I'm slowly...
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Words Are What We Talk With
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoGHOST STORIES, FAIRY TALES AND RIDDLESThese are wine-drinking days.We sip darkly into the deep hoursof our poetry.Words are what we talk withand we have...
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Decoding by Dreamlight
Petroglyphs—Photo by D.R. Wagner, LockeFIRST BLOOD—Charles Mariano, Sacramentowent to OfficeMaxa while ago,got the lowdownon the latest tech,or more to the point,how far behind i amneeded a stack of...
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Keep The Fire Burning
—Photo by Ann Privateer, DavisFOUR PROSE POEMS—James Lee Jobe, Davis YOU LIVE AMONG THE GREEN TREES of the forest, and sleep on the bare earth. Your dreams rise up from the roots and the soil, as a...
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Too Soon Gone
—Poems and Photos by Martie Odell Ingebretsen, SacramentoMUSIC FROM THE FIRST OF SUMMERThe grasses move like feathersin the breezes through the canyonand the fog in soft of coverbrings the ocean’s...
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A Ship of Song in This Tinsel World
Glads —Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeSHAPES“Watch this,” Ramon said, pouring The entire vial of red dreams into the fire.Our hearts escaped and flew deep into The most ancient of written...
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Find a Wise Way
—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochVOICE OF A DISSIPATED WOMAN INSIDE A TOMB,TALKING TO ANOTHER WOMAN WHO PRESUMED TO ENTER A CHURCH WITH THE PURPOSE OF BEING SEEN AND PRAISED BY EVERYONE, WHO SAT...
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The God Who Consoles
—Photo by B.Z. NiditchTUMBLING YEARS—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAThe first yearI saw the diving swansthe constantly moving group,three ballerinasunder the sun showerat noondayfollowed by Cinderellaon...
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Rag of Prayer
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoIT IS THE VIOLET TIME OF EVENINGIt is the violet time of evening.The day slows down. Quickens. One isthe other. The color of night begins.I stretch out one...
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How To Cast Off Attachments
Kaleidopines —Photo by Taylor GrahamGLINT OF THE TRAIL—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleIn my iPad’s kaleidoscopic lens:a bench in the park at the edge of trees,a shield of flattened rings as wood-grain...
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From the Poets Only Lane
A Sestet Short of a Petrarchan—Poems and Photos by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochJUST INJUSTit was just-Spring!but now the world is mildew-lasciviousand piddly-woefulwhile the goat-loined Art Man...
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Liberating With Love
—Photo by Martie Odell Ingebretsen, SacramentoONCE SPEECHLESS, NOW QUOTABLE(A Tribute to Maya Angelou)—Sharon Mahany, Roseville CAThank you, Miss Maya, for sensing the profound and universal...
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When Life Begins to Sing
Cactus Flower—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeBLEDEUWEDD ("flower face")Lieu would never marry a human wifeAnd so nine kinds of flowers came togetherAnd lovely Bledeuwedd was made....
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Something That Shall Endure
Duncan's Landing—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoON THE BEACH AT NIGHT—Walt WhitmanOn the beach at night,Stands a child with her father,Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the...
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