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Daylight Turned Dusky
WTF Editor/Luna's Host frank andrick reading at the release of the new issue of Rattlesnake Press's WTF! on Aug. 21—WTF! Release Photos by Michelle KunertOCTOBER—Patricia L. Nichol, SacramentoOctober...
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The Magic Maps of Imagination
—Poems and Photos by Martie Odell Ingebretsen, Sacramento THOUGHTS ON AN OPEN DOORFrom the open doorthe last trace of summeris the garden hosesnaking between knee-high dandelionsand sweet peas gone to...
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We Make Our Own Labyrinths
—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeMESSAGEFirst there were fires that scattered the villagesFar and wide. So many languages came uponUs that it became most difficult for us to understandOne...
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The Teachings Cannot Be Silenced
LOG OUT—Rhony Bhopla, SacramentoThe man at the entrance of Gandhi’s tombswore at me for loving.He hissed with his shaft tongue:“If you log in, you had better log out.”He spat into my ancestral...
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Sea Shadows
—Poems and Photos by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MATHIRTIETH OF AUGUST Wishing to listento silence,scattering solitudeamong shells and stonein reverie;at the beachsunshine brushes dunesby the edge of the...
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Grey Threads of Dream-Fragments
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoMORNING SOUNDS AND COLORSMauve-gray of pre-dawn just after night’s blue rain. Winds of no color break through the night, sending the dark green trees and...
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Eldrich
Separation—Photo by Taylor GrahamSEPARATE—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleThe first I knew was the old ewestampeding terror in a burst of dust pastthe window. How could I nothave heard the oak fall? Half of...
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Tom-Toms in the Night
—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MO—Photos by Caschwa, SacramentoNORMAN DOESN'T GO TO FERGUSON, MISSOURINot far from Ferguson aflameare quiet leafy neighborhoods Norman Rockwell might have painted...
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Heroic Tenors
Daydream—Poems and Photos by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochON A PHOTOGRAPH OF BUSTER KEATONHe was IAnd I am heNot a question if I wanna beBounce meBreak meLet me fade to blackI am dyingBut I won't tellI...
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Look At The Ends
Fungus—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockePASTORALThe sun finds silly places to lookFor things, across a cat’s furWhile it walks across the gravelJust as evening is repairing itselfFor its show.It...
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Foolish Questions
Angel with Roses, Middletown Cemetery—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoROSES, LATE SUMMER —Mary OliverWhat happens to the leaves after they turn red and golden and fall away? What happensto the...
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War Reporter
—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAAN ATTIC'S FIFTH TRUNKThe fifth trunkwas unloadedstudents cameto our assistancewe took precautionto wash our handsthe luggagehad...
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Dream-Shadows
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHE BODY IN THE SUITCASEThe body in the suitcase isgetting tired of being undiscovered.It wants to become famousas its murderer has promised.It wants to...
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Fools & Spells
Folsom Antique Fair, Folsom, CA—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoBAD KARMA THURSDAY—Tom Goff, CarmichaelThursdays are my worst days: the fatiguejust after rehearsal night. The traffic…whyin God’s...
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Persuasion's Vices
Two Chickens—Photo by Ann Privateer TRANSFORMATION—Ann Privateer, DavisWorry-free me splitsto the quirky aviarybound by chicken wirekept in to not expirefrom Bavarian resignationfor a shot at...
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Unfaithful Dreams
Tower of London Raven—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisCRADLE CODEX—Grant Tarbard, Essex, EnglandAlign yourself with purity, the sally willowing night sky laid as a blanket for the Lady of Sycamoreand thrown...
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Blinking Into The Night
Gateway—Poems, Photos and Photo Enhancementsby D.R. Wagner, LockeTHE SILVER BELL“a static line that danced nowand then like a drunken cemetery.” —Richard BrautiganThe dream was...
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Just Waiting—
Artpiece using pieces of real books—Photo by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAMY FIRST MEMORY (OF LIBRARIANS)—Nikki GiovanniThis is my first memory:A big room with heavy wooden tables that sat on a creaky...
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Libraries & Forest Fires
Setting Sun with Crows—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisROOKS OF THE TOWER—Taylor Graham, Placerville for Elihu BurrittA convocation of these ancestral antiquarianbirds is called to...
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Poetry Dreams
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoA POETRY DREAM I would be a library—shelves andshelves of me, honoring books—too many ever to read. I would have desks and chairs for quiet study andfor...
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