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A Song of Poetry
—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Denise Flanagan, MAA COUNTRY ROADWe carry strawberriesin baskets of vegetationby the frankness of naturehiking for miles in Concordnear Walden...
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Piccolos in the Forest
—Anonymous Photo—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MOGUNS AND CELL PHONESIn St. Louis young blackscarry guns like cell phones and use them oftento shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper and...
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Like the Heart on Fire
Alfredo's Figurine, Locke, CA—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, LockeA BLACK TICKETThe black ticket of their soulsFlying across the sky.Packages of dreams.Stars crumbling under the weightOf their...
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Like An Endless Meditation
Blue Buddha—Photo by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CATHE CANOEING—Russell Edson (1935-2014)We went upstairs in a canoe. I kept catching my paddle in the banisters.We met several salmon passing us, flipping step...
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Everyone Should Have One
Annie Menebroker reading at Red Alice's Poetry EmporiumWednesday, June 10—Photo by Michelle Kunert, Sacramento TROLLS. REALLY?—Katy Brown, Davis, CAThe house is infestedwith a clan of trolls.The...
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Desperate for Poetry
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento FIFTEEN(1939—Long Beach)At 39 Mermaid Placethe old whoreneighborin bed with anotheryoung husband sheintroducesloans her detective-storymagazinesto the...
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Elvis Returns!
Paula Conant and Jane Conant Blue—Photo Courtesy of Jane Blue, SacramentoWAKING—Jane Blue, SacramentoHe kisses me on the top of the headbefore I am quite awake.I hear nothing, my good ear buriedin the...
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On Thursday
—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos/Artwork by Keely S. Dorran, Sacramento, CAON THURSDAYThe laundry doneunder intervalsof turn-around washesand now drying in the sunnear the tall dune grassby...
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If He Were To Come Today...
—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MO—Photos by Robert Lee Haycock, Antioch, CAMEETING DAD AGAINThirty years later, Dad came backand we met for Ham and Yams at Toffenetti’s.Pouring his tea, he told me...
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Cathedral of the Heart
Glad 2—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAUNTIL THE LAST SYLLABLEThe agents of red reminded usThat we only had a short timeLeft. We knew these agents refusedTo have any discussion beyond "a few...
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Something to Keep
THE GIFT—Li-Young LeeTo pull the metal splinter from my palmmy father recited a story in a low voice.I watched his lovely face and not the blade.Before the story ended, he'd removedthe iron sliver I...
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Parrots & Wooden Legs
Halo, Citrus Heights, CA—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAPUT YOUR MONEY WHERE MY MOUTH IS—Caschwa, SacramentoWhen I visited the dentist first they told meI needed some work…lots and lots of workThen...
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A Burst of Bird Song
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoFATHER(after “To My Father” by Diane DiPrima, from Pieces of a Song)I think you were on your way to me . . . and then you were gone. Goodbye, Father.I...
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On the Ninth Day...
Neil Fulwood at Teviot Water GardensKelso, Borders, Scotland —Poems by Neil Fulwood, Nottingham, EnglandHAIL TO THE CHIEFHail to the team leaderHail to the supervisorHail to the managerHail to the...
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Wings, Winds and Arpeggios
Nubble Lighthouse, Maine—Photo by Denise Flanagan—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MICALLS OF THE POETWe're reading the Amherst poetin her finest wordsfrom an old editionas blurred threads in a...
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Three Letters
Michael Ceraolo, Willoughby, Ohio2014: LETTER ON SUPER BOWL SUNDAYTo the Posters and Boasters,It is the day of the big gameand many can't wait for the game to startAnd others of you,in honor of...
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The Whispering of Songs
The Chicken Coop—A Caravan—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAA LAMP OF CHILDHOODIt smelled like the waiting roomIn a train stationWhere the train would be two hours late.Nobody wanted to talkTo...
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Journey
Dust—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CAADMIT THE SUNSHINE—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAAdmit glory to the sunshine dawncovering the green water fallshere between the ocean and skyour shadows live in...
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Eggsactly!
Gurvinder Kaur and Rhony Bhopla, Amritsar, IndiaBABA BOHAR—Rhony Bhopla, SacramentoSacred banyan tree, adhesive sapYou seal the fragments of my incoherenceBohar, vast twisted bearded bark is...
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Time Is Like That
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHE UNIMAGINED ANIMALS in the citythe animals finally camewith their glinting eyesand their quiet walkingwith their adaptable handsand their...
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