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To Fight Aloud
Cornerstone Gardens, Sonoma—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoTO FIGHT ALOUD IS VERY BRAVE (126)—Emily DickinsonTo fight aloud, is very brave—But gallanter, I knowWho charge within the bosomThe...
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Two Stray Cats & A Prayer
—Photo by Caschwa, SacramentoTO BE FEARLESS—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAAnything could happenin the Sixtiesengulfed by creativityI would just check outwhat was wantedon theater bulletinsin the Big...
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A Silence to Fill
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHE SOUL-BIRDwhat is this pallof spiritthatupon me nowI feellike something heavysomething heavy upon melet falla pallupon my spirit.I hum in my soulthat...
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Ghosts We Find
Full House—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisFOUND IN AN ATTIC: WORLD WAR II LETTER TO A WIFE—Donal Mahoney, St. Louis When I get homethings will be the same.I haven't changed.The sling comes off the dayI get...
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Angles Filed
Elk Grove Creek, Absent Rainfall—Photo by Caschwa, SacramentoPOETIC LICENSE—Caschwa, SacramentoOver time this will becomeA rippling body of waterThat local parents will describeTo their small children...
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Overpriced House Paint
—Poems by Kevin Jones, Elk Grove —Illustrations by W. Heath RobinsonHOW I REALLY NEVER DIDGET ANY DEGREES IN CREATIVE WRITINGIf only you were A little betterAt it, they said, oncePer...
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Listen To Our Names
Beetle—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeLOOK!Look! It is the night.It has filled my body and peersOut through my eyes, becomes moons.I do not want to think howThis thing happened. PerhapsThis is...
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Overlapping & Oblivious
Trifid Nebula—Photo Courtesy of NASA, Hubble TelescopeTHE OVERLAP OF WORLDS—Russell Edson The furniture is like models of animals. You can see the dining room table as a kind of bull standing with...
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One Life
Seahorse Sculpture, California State Fair—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA —Photos by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoMY FRIEND THOREAUJust returned from an unearned vacationat Walden Pondvisiting with...
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Sister of Woe
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoBETRAYALSA woman made of snow cannot love a man of fire, with all the difference that will torture them with harsh desire.A man of snow, with all his melting...
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Eggplant, I'm Told
Bluebird Babies—Photo by Taylor GrahamA PHOTO TRIES TO CAPTURE LIGHT—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleInside the box, a persistent calling: hunger.Where is their mother, will she bring a fly,or a darkling...
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Like A Prince
Jane Blue, with Annie MenebrokerEND OF SUMMER—Jane Blue, Sacramento1In July's long heat wave we feltwe were dead, or we were the living dead.We had no hunger, no hungers.We couldn't wail. We couldn't...
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Our Kick-Ass Warrior Angels
Raspberry—Photo by CaschwaTRAPPED—Caschwa, Sacramento Somewhere in the house or garage orMaybe an outbuilding are a stash of Unsorted boxes and in those boxes may Be found a small collection of film...
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How Like A Poem...
The Hurrying Storm—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeTHE BIG TIMEA gull, pitched across the skyIn front of a serious storm, Lightning, great thunder, hail,Raindrops protesting their call to...
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To See Past The Morning
Buddha—Photo by D.R. WagnerUNABLE TO SAY AMEN —D.R. Wagner, Locke I am no longer North, although my blood Still comes to freezing when I think of ships Bound by the ice and crushed like...
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We Are Here For Art
Buick Headlights—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Katy Brown, DavisON SHEPARD STREETOn Shepard Streetin Harvard Squarewhere we shoppedfor wine and cheesethese poets cameto share their...
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A Sea of Shadows
—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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Spirit-Voices
Light —Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, PlacervilleBOOMWe watched the clouds build,waiting. What was leftof snowmelt in the mountainswas sweat on skin. We wrung ourselveslike dishrags. Thensomething...
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The Jasmine Fields of Our Lives
Bonnie ZoBell, one of the featured readers at Sacramento Voices Saturday, July 19—Photo by Michelle Kunert, Sacramento LIGHTLY AND WITH COLOR—Claire J. Baker, PinoleShe feels all that joy can...
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What Do You Seek, Poet?
Crest of a Wave—Painting by Montague Dawson, 1885-1973SUMMER NIGHT—Antonio Machado y Ruiz, 1875-1939It is a beautiful summer night.The tall houses leave their balcony shutters opento the wide plaza of...
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