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Reaching to Catch the Gulls
Deck Chair—Photo by Taylor Graham, PlacervilleWHARTON IN HEAT(Edith Wharton, poet and novelist of The House of Mirth)—Tom Goff, CarmichaelStrange to read Wharton’s poem, “Terminus,”turn right away from...
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Where is the Song . . .?
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHIS QUIET MORNING—after the white dream—the sun not yet filtering through the tree outside the window, an unseen bird brightly singing somewhere in the...
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What Day?
Cloud Keeper from the Tales of Fae Acting Co.Time Travelers' Bazaar at Great Escape Gameson Howe Avenue, Sacramento—Photos by Michelle Kunert, Sacramento—Poems by Allison Grayhurt, Toronto WHAT DAY?...
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An Unwritten Life
—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos of Pollock Pines, CA by Sam the Snake ManAUGUST AT CAPE ANNWe know how quicklythe excitable rainwill quicken a crowdat our outside jazz gigplaying in a trio...
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Those Good Tomatoes
Taylor and Hatch Graham's Chicks When They Were Little—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CA—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MOSTRIKE!It’s a big book, a thousand pages,a million words, a bestseller,and the...
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These Crusted Dreams
Houseboat at Walnut Creek Marina—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA WHERE THE MEANINGS AREWhere the meanings areLeft out on the streetTo find their own way home,Distressed at their own...
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I Am
San Francisco Bay, as she leads us out tothe Pacific Ocean and its many adventures —Photo by Kathy Kieth, Diamond Springs, CAJOURNEY HOME—Rabindranath Tagore The time that my journey takes is long and...
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The Taste of Painted Dreams
Calistoga—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoDEVISING AN ESCAPE—Loch Henson, Diamond Springs, CAFirst step: find your expired passport.In order to make a getaway, you’regoing to need a way to get...
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How Wide the Sky
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHE LITTLE SHOP OF MYSTERYWhat we sell here is always what you need.Amulets and calendars; out-dated stones;jars of rain that still separate into drops.We...
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What Are You Running From?
—Poems and Photos by James Diaz, N. Salem, NYPARIS UNDER THE TABLEWhat you are running from?The way certain people held youwhen you were youngand could not request otherwise,the way the land...
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Reading Whitman in the Woods
—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Denise Flanagan, Newton, MAON SUMMER STREETYou are realityon Summer Streetenergized by the sunshinediscovering a young poetnow walking upthe Fine Arts...
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The Glow of Grace and Age
—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MO—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAINTERLOPER AT THE RED FEEDERThe Downy is the smallest flickerbut his arrival is uninvited anddisturbs the hummingbirds circling in...
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Breathing Roses
Slough—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA BREATHING ROSESI can’t lose the tears.I’ve reckoned the earth.I have lived in a tower.I seem to remember everyoneElse’s days better than my own.“Why...
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The Good Worm
THE CATERPILLAR—Robert Graves (1895-1985)Under this loop of honeysuckle,A creeping, coloured caterpillar,I gnaw the fresh green hawthorn spray,I nibble it leaf by leaf away.Down beneath grow...
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Itsy-Bitsey & Johnny Cash
—Photos of the Salt-and-Pepper Shaker Displayat the 2015 California State Fairby Michelle Kunert, SacramentoLOST & FOUND—Kevin Jones, Elk Grove, CASome hairpins,I think.A mummifiedSliceOf wedding...
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The Blue Silence of the Boat
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHROUGH THE NARROWSAs you glide through the dark sleepof your lifea strange boat passes—slowly, slowly, through the dream.I had to say this. It is the truth....
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For All the Lost...
Loki and Trek—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CACHANGELING for Loki & TrekI use her blanket to swaddle the babein our truck on the drive home.Might it meld their...
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Books, Brie and Blood Oranges
—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Denise Flanagan, Newton, MABAY TIMEAgain the Augustairless aromawith tourists takinga snapshot of cranessomewhere lost by Bay timeby the spraying...
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Bright, Variable Stars
Jessica Wiseman Lawrence —Poems by Jessica Wiseman Lawrence, Lovingston, VAABSCISSIONWe begin as many-armed things.I was born armed with feasibility and choicebranching from me, and so were you.In the...
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The Braiding of Moments: Ambulances to the Heart
Luffa—Photo by D.R. Wagner —Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CASMALL INCIDENTWe were standing by whatUsed to be the fountains.We had been told thereWas to be a swarm nearThe long ridges. We had Wanted to...
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