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Music of Life
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoCOMING ACROSS THEIR NAMESI remember mostly her blue eye shadow with the gold flecks in it, her eyelashes catching bits of light like remnants of tears, her...
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Winds From the Other Side
Workaday—Photo by Robert Lee HaycockAND SO ON...—Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochI forgot to tell youI remember when I made you cryI forgot to tell youI remember when I made you laughI forgot to tell youI...
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Drink On!
—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MATHE SILENT MILEFacing a Boston marathonin memoryof your friend's passingdays fool youlike an embraceof spring's processionon a canvas of...
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I Was King...
—Photo by Carol Bales—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MOFELINE IN WINTERSome days you think the cat will stay till summer comes, this Prodigal Son you've fed for years, this feral catwho comes and...
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A Window Opens
Chair—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeA GREAT WHITE OWLThere is much in my heart I do not know.I can hear the coyote out along the slough.Tonight a great white owl flew across the roadDirectly in...
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Today's Arborial LittleNips
—Medusa, with thanks to Stacie Sherman for the photographs of these tree-messages she found on Winding Way in Fair Oaks. Click once on each one for the full impact.P.S. Did you remember to set your...
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Painting on the Wind
Ghost Ship—Anonymous PhotoFOR THE YEARS COUNTING—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleAs many blueberries as we could stealwhen the Grizzly wasn’t looking—crowberriesand one King Salmon that fit perfectly in...
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The Dark Listens
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoAUBADEI am pale beginningfeel me nowemergebecomereveal my new energymy old sorrow-signliftedmy curse gonespiritual forcesurroundingand I, as center,gathering...
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Terror is Frail
Allison Grayhurst, Toronto, Ontario, Canada—Poems by Allison GrayhurstOVERALLOverall I name the wintermine. I took the sleeping birdand let her rest away from the cold.I opened my eyes to the...
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With a Likeness of Wings
—Poems and Photos by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MATOWARD THE MARCH SKYSome dunes in March conversenear the shore's facebirds sit on an impassive edgewith a likeness of wingsby the sigh of a gold...
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Throwbacks & Other Chaos
—Photo by Charles Mariano, SacramentoTHROWBACK—Charles Mariano“hello?”people are scrolling, texting, everywhereinto lit screenstiny, flat boxeswhere fingers move,not lips and tonguesno one looks you in...
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Magic is Always Afoot
—Poems, Photos & Artwork byD.R. Wagner, Locke, CA AFTERNOON REVERIEThe blear of the afternoonReflects itself in the sloughs,Giving us a water temple.This is where music is.The songbirds arrange...
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Act Like He's There!
Church Organ Pipes—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CAALL ABOARD—Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MONext to me on the traingoing home to the suburbsis another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper,a normal-looking...
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Moonflower Eyes
Harmonics—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, Antioch NEVER WAS—Robert Lee HaycockCome to think of itThere never was a timeThe rooms were biggerOr I was smallerFour flat tiresBroken branchesEverything...
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Maybe Tonight, With Wings
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoKEEPING UP WITH THE MUSEI settle down again to words,those offhand thingsthat come to mind and urge meto respond and connect my thoughtto their presence. And...
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Lure of the Land, Call of the Sea
Joe Tetro—Poems by Joe Tetro, Stockton, CAAGRARIAN ROUNDS OF EXISTENCEGentle footsteps of sunshine fall on the gray shingles of the south-facing roofof the old barn where mice play hide and seekin the...
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March Music
Indian Paintbrush and Swallowtail—Photos by Stacie Sherman, Orangevale, CA—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAMARCH MUSICShadows fallnear the mirror, coatand once-soiled bannerheld on a marathon runin...
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Clinging to What's Green
—Photo by Mark Haskett, ModestoGREEN—Nancy Haskett, ModestoEveryone tells you that Ireland is green,but still, it takes you by surprise,this one color, so multi-huedas far as you can see;they don’t...
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Only Travelers
Motorcycles on Main Street—Poems and Artwork by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CATHE MOON SCREAMS ACROSS THE SKY,SLIDING INTO THE EDGE OF THE LAKEThere are many way this poem can go.There are always small...
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Reliable Finery
—Anonymous PhotoMORNING GLORIES—Mary OliverBlue and dark-blue rose and deepest rose white and pink they are everywhere in the diligent cornfield rising and swaying in...
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