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Shattering Birds of Light

Blue Flower—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento  BREAKING GLASSTeeth of light bite into me like regret;we are caught in light like prisms.How can I not tell this to you—you who break apart like...

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The Skin of Memory

—Photo by Ann Privateer  NO PARKING ZONE—Ann Privateer, Davis, CAA sign says no, you and your carare not wanted here, here toomany people muck up the worksthere's only room for just a fewso maybe you...

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Fragrant Sunlit Days

—Photos by Denise Flanagan, MA—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAA BREATH OF SUMMERIn the clearinga breath of summeron the sand castleby a sleep house to restbonded on living handsin blankets of...

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The Trail of Broken Wings

 Those Trickster Ravens—Poems and Photos by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoAN INEVITABLE ADVENTURE: RECOMMENDED FOR YOU        Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure....

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Glasses Full of the Moon

Inside the Lion in Locke—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA  NOT KNOWINGThe mouth of the day.The father of waters.The forgotten names.The calls of seldom-seen birds.The many voices of fire.The...

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Magellan Lives

—Painting from Game of Thrones Novel by Jeffrey JonesMAGELLAN—Mary OliverLike Magellan, let us find our islandsTo die in, far from home, from anywhereFamiliar.  Let us risk the wildest places,Lest we...

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Time to Wake

Jenkinson Lake, Pollock Pines, CA—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CA  AUNT IRENE’S TRADE GOODS—Kevin Jones, Elk Grove, CA  She was the sacristan For the parish church,Kept the place clean,And the priests...

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Shadow-Thoughts

ZenSee—Poems and ZenTangles by Joyce Odam, Sacramento  AIR SPACEHere I live in this old ugly room, behind this noncommittal door that locks, and this stingy window that opens to the flat near wall,...

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Another Sunrise

—Photos by Alysiana Gonzales, Sacramento—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MOPLAGIARISMI'd never steal a poem or any of its shining facets but I'd take the mood a poem is born in if the poem is...

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Discover Me

—Photos by Denise Flanagan, MA—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAJULY'S LAST HOURDog dayswith man and beast in heatdenuded for the seareaches out for wavesbreathing in humid airon the aquatic beachas...

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Keeping the Pot Boiling

—Poems and Photos by Pijush Kanti Deb, Assam, IndiaA PEACE-LOVING FAMILY MANThe open screen of a marketprojects a scene of a wranglingalmost ready to set inbut one of the rivals is seento show his back...

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Keep Looking

—Sketch by Bernie Wrightson, 1984—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAONE WHO KNOWS THE NAMES OF STARSThe rabbit stopping in the snow, in the blueLight of the Winter moon, catches that lightIn...

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Like A Bag Full of Cats

—Anonymous PhotoHe felt bullied by his possessions. One needed fixing, another to be returned to its shelf. One needed reassembling, another taken apart. Each had demands that must be met to keep it...

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Remembering Rain

S.F. Velocity Circus at Sac. Banana Festival, Aug. 8-9—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoA WALK ON A RAINY EVENING—Patricia A. Pashby, Fairfield, CALet's not talk—here, take my hand.Let's just...

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The Edge of Summer

—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoSOME OBLIVIOUS THOUGHTThere istoo many of methis morning.I am plural of mind.I am at odds with myself.Too many of melook backthrough the mirror.Too many of...

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On Seven-Starred Shoes

A Listener (1899)—Painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema—Poems by Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945)A LOVE SONGCome to me in the night—we shall sleep closely together.I am so tired, lonely from being...

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All These Earthly Things

—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Denise Flanagan, Newton, MARANDOM AUGUST DAY(for Bella Akhmadulina, 1937-2012)Gathering blueberrieson a random August dayeven as it showerssqualls and...

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Ink In Your Blood

Red Dragonfly—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CAthe first crow has arrived.  it's clear that the saucers aren't coming to take us away after all. let's all let go of the old humiliations and move on. yes,...

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Painting Dreams

Russell's Bulldozer—Photo by D.R. Wagner—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA  PORT AND STARBOARDI used to think I knewWhere a poem might be going,That I could feel the languageGiving way beneath meAnd...

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All Out There...

Perseid Meteor Shower over Northern CaliforniaAugust 13, 2015THE PRESS OF NIGHT—Russell Edson     At night when the strings are cut; the only string is an electric cord feeding an electric light.   . ....

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