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Shut Up And Sing
Pillar, Darling House, Santa Cruz, CA —Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MO—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAVETERANS CEMETERYFamilies comeon Memorial Daydepending on the weather;otherwise the Fourth of...
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Do You Know The Breath?
Moon in the Morning—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CATHE LITTLE CRIMESWater washing up small creeks from the riverCarrying the news about the fish dying.Unable to breathe, we are assured...
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The Sadder We Are, The Better We Sing
The Old Guitarist—Painting by Pablo Picasso, 1903-4THOUGHTS FROM THAT TIME—Joyce Odam, Sacramento It is how I seethe eyes of things.The eyes of the childopposite the eyes of the bird.The twig of the...
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Questioning Saturday
Near Courtland—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock COMMUTED SENTENCE—Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochRolling backward through the nightFreighted with the fro-ing and to-ing of todayPerpetuities of furrowed brow...
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One Ghost and One Sorrow
Red Rose—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoIN THE GALLERY After The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even, by Marcel Duchamp, 1915-23Between glass panes, the image...
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Poems On Our Doorstep
—Poems by Michael Lee Johnson, Itaska, ILDEAD GREY WOLF SKINS (Tribute: Aldo Leopold)1935.Dead grey wolf skins hangon white clotheslines across Baraboo, Wisconsinthe dark surface, dirty old shack,...
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Like Seaweed
The Fight (Lake Natoma)—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Stacie Sherman, Orangevale, CAJANUARY FIRSTGrass still not buriedby a palpable rainawakening to hearthe slosh shadowsas grackles...
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Tell Me a Riddle
Exeter Book (Anonymous Photo)FOUR RIDDLES FROM THE EXETER BOOK —Anonymous, c. 960-990 A.D.Clothes make no sound when I tread groundOr dwell in dwellings or disturb the flow. And lofty air and gear...
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Fragments of Angels
Ladders—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA ONE-NIGHT STAND Come with me now to the thrilling days of yesteryear. The streets of Aberdeen are full of water. The Wolf Moon eating the hills all...
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Crazy
Michele Serros (1966-2015)WHITE OWNED—Michele SerrosPink mama tugs at pink baby."Don't wander off,"she warns.I sympathizelike any hopeful mother to be. "You never know,"pink mama says,"people today are...
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Companions of Solitude
—Photo by Ann Menebroker, SacramentoSHADOWS AND MIST—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleFrom the barricaded dead-end ofpavement, back along the trail, I met twomen in black with stars on their chest.My “good...
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Thursday's Child
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHE CHILD DANCERS(After a painting)who knows who behind the mask in a dance so primitive—a dance so menacing…toward you… away from you…small dancers…...
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Bring On Your Best Shot...
Scott Thomas Outlar, Atlanta, GAAND I'LL BRING MINE—Scott Thomas Outlar, Atlanta, GA Bring on the warBring on the terrorBring on the fireBring on the floodEvolution is readyfor a swift kickin the assin...
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Poet-Exiles
Angels Among Us—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CA—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MACITY SPARROWSHere we are poet-exiles, gnomesor vagrants migratingwith a seasoned destiny like sparrowsbut with no...
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Come In, Justin...
Rembrandt, San Juan Capistrano—Photo by Stacie Sherman, Orangevale, CAPALAK* —Rhony Bhopla, SacramentoUnfortunately, wemustmurder it:the inevitable knifespearsthrough living fleshmaking a cauterizing...
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Mysteries We Must Carry
Mike's Buddha—Photo by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Poems by D.R. WagnerBRINGING HOME THE STARSShe said she was going to bring Home the stars. Can you imagine that,Someone bringing home the stars.She was...
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To Smash This Night
Wall—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CAAS I GREW OLDER—Langston Hughes (1902-1967)It was a long time ago.I have almost forgotten my dream.But it was there then,In front of me,Bright like a sun—My dream.And...
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The TG's
If I Could Read the Writing...—Photo by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CASWEET DREAMS —Taylor Graham The full moon’s bright as an owl’s eye for luminous dreaming on a night like this. Turn out your...
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Dreamer on the Shore of Dreaming
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoALL IS MOST DANGEROUS TO ITSELF (After "Empire of Dreams" by Charles Simic) Wakings are paragraphs, page-turnings.Always ‘what next’…Wantings are...
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Carnations—Or Are They Poppies?
—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochPOPPIES AT THE PARK-AND-RIDE—Robert Lee HaycockThe hills are greenThe new year, tooI'm off the busRiot of poppies at the Park-and-RideOrange as marshmallow peanuts...
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