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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleFragrant 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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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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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...
View ArticleMagellan 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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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...
View ArticleShadow-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,...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleDiscover 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...
View ArticleKeeping 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...
View ArticleKeep 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...
View ArticleLike 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...
View ArticleRemembering 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleOn 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...
View ArticleAll 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...
View ArticleInk 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,...
View ArticlePainting 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...
View ArticleAll 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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