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One More Mountain & a River of Bone
—Photo by Robert Lee Haycockan inconvenient excuse—Robert Lee Haycock, Antiochpaper boxes floating on a circle of blue broken wings as soft as dawn and incense locked doors that time will not open dry...
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Metaphors, Meteors, and the Metaphysical
—Poems and Photos of Manchester by the Seaby B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAAT OUR LIBRARYThere is somethingin our footsteps of anticipationfrom our shadowsas morning lights usat the librarywhich brings...
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Keep Typing—
—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MO(with anonymous artwork) THIS DARK MORNINGIf I were a possumwith a tail that longI too would hangfrom a tree limb this dark morningand hiss to frightenthe cats off...
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Always the Surprise
Abandoned House—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeTHE FACE OF THE CLIFFWe first knew about this placeFrom a trail that led toAn open space where oneCould look up and seeThe many structures Attached...
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Give Earth Yourself
AMONG THE ROCKS—Robert BrowningOh, good gigantic smile o’ the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bonesTo bask i’ the sun, and thrusts out knees and feetFor the ripple to run...
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Dreaming of Romeo
2014 Dancing Poetry Festival, SF, Sept. 19 —Photo by Katy Brown, DavisCALLING—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleOverhead, a weave of cloud and wingsabove the delta. You crane your neck, tryingto untangle...
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The Gasp of Warning
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoIN BLUE REFLECTION(After "Water", photo enhancement by D.R. Wagner—first appeared in Medusa's Kitchen) Now water separates against the land.Now earth has...
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In the Tower...
Chateau Le Mung, FranceCHATEAU LE MUNG—Allegra Silberstein, DavisIn the tower I knew in the hours of my reflection the inflections of ardor printed on the split pages of my heart...In the tower I knew...
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Fall's Dance
Fall in Cape Cod—Poems and Photos by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAAN EARTH CHILDFloating on suspectingclouds, wind, warmthcovering the green seain your bare feetover animated pine combsand listened to...
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All We Can Do
—Photos by Robert Lee Haycock, Antiochfrom his "St. Joachim and the Dragonfly" seriesPRIMITIVE—Claire J. Baker, PinoleWolves,curious, cold, hungry,gathered courage,ventured toward cave peopleand camp...
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A Weaving of Weather and Dreams
Dawn, Locke, CA—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeTHE GHOST IN THE CHURCHThe music was there.The gift had been given.The sky becomes undoneAnd terrorizes the rivers.The bright tensions that...
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Hold Out for the Queen
WHAT WOULD SISYPHUS DO?—Buck Moon, Rohnert Park, CAThe poetry of solitaireis the solitude of poetry,bound by who knows what neurological constraints.Free Cell. Should I wait for the...
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A Scroll of Infinities
—Poems and Photos by Katy Brown, DavisA POEM I WILL NEVER WRITEI don’t want to write about this becauseeven acknowledging it seems like drawing a pirate map to it.I have never looked inside the sealed...
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Days of Chances
Sisyphus—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoWHY ARE YOU SUCH AN UNDERTOW?Why are you such an undertowpulling me downwardthrough the futilities,through the heavy sucking watersof disparities?I am...
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What I Meant To Say...
On the Western Edge—Photos by Robert Lee HaycockBREAD AND BUTTER—Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochAcross a lake of mud on a cardboard raft I search for my headstone among mannequins and marbles."I'm hurt....
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Starting Points
Steve Marsh Glass Electrical Insulators Collection—Photos from Folsom Historical Museum, Folsom, CAby Michelle Kunert, Sacramento—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA WHAT WE HAVEWe have a starting...
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Like a Spring Lamb Dancing Comes...
Dry—Poems by Taylor Graham, Placerville—Photos by Katy Brown, DavisA VENUE, A WAKEAt first light down by the creekthere sits this early morninga judge-bird. No. Two, perched low on the rocks. A...
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Great Eternal Ships
The Phantom of Locke —Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAA PEAL OF BELLSThe silhouettes seemed to unroll As if dropped from the hands of angels.The evening, unhemmed and still wrinkled,Grinds...
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The Heart Lives On
CHAPLINESQUE—Hart Crane, 1889-1932We make our meek adjustments,Contented with such random consolationsAs the wind depositsIn slithered and too ample pockets.For we can still love the world, who findA...
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Fantasies Redux
—Photos by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoDORIAN THE MOVIE—Jeanine Stevens, Sacramento (After The Portrait of Dorian Gray, from a story by Oscar Wilde) He was handsome, young and new, hair...
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