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Cleaning Spittoons
BRASS SPITTOONS—Langston HughesClean the spittoons, boy. Detroit, Chicago, Atlantic City, Palm Beach. Clean the spittoons. The steam in hotel kitchens, And the smoke in...
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In Camera
Back Room Door—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CAOUTDATED—Charles Mariano, Sacramento “what’s wrong?”“nothing”“your face looks troubled”just talked to a guy at Starbucks,while buying a Santana CDtook it...
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The Latest Despair of the Heart
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoPHOTOGRAPHYHe takes the red night apart, bird bybird and branch by branch of the black tree.I have seen him do it.He aims his eyes to what he wantsand goes...
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Things Found in Books
—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CA—Poem by Michael Ceraolo, Willoughby Hills, OHTHINGS FOUND IN BOOKS 1We were attendingone of the local winterfestswhen we stopped into an antique storefor a...
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Underground Poet
—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Denise Flanagan, Newton, MASEPTEMBER 4TH, DAWNThe neighbor's dog dashesoutdoors by the riverbedas two scholars' booksabout Nabokov's lapidarybutterflies...
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Beyond the Milkweed
Monarch on Milkweed (Anonymous Photos)—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MOBEYOND THE MILKWEEDIt was her birthday.She was only fivethe dawn we went outto look at rosesin Grandma's gardenwhile everyone...
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What Do You Know of Magic?
Buddha Head, Locke, CA—Photo by D.R. Wagner—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA MAPJust beyond here, there isn’t muchWater at all. It is a desert but we don’tThink of it as such. It isA place we don’t...
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Which I Is I?
—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisIN A DARK TIME —Theodore Roethke In a dark time, the eye begins to see,I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;I hear my echo in the echoing wood—A lord of nature weeping to...
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The Ghost of José Montoya
Poet/Musician "Mouthpeace" at the Urban Renaissance,Sacramento, September, 2015—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoSAME OLD—Caschwa, SacramentoThe television was turned onVacuum tubes started glowing...
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Silk, Dancing
—Poems and Artwork by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHE AUGUST CALENDAR(from the photosynthesis photographyof Jerry Uelsmann)here in the room of gray water—those sea-shadows,wall shadows, here where the boat...
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The More I Learn About The Wind...
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAWHAT DO YOU KNOW OF MAGIC? See this wet-mop hung out to dry? Look closely. Just a mop. Now see this basin of water— once-used salvage-water from the...
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No Art is Ever Ended
—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Denise Flanagan, Newton, MA WE ARE PASSINGWe are passingto another worldwith fresh anemonesin our handsthey will surviveall barbed wirebeyond the wheat...
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Creases and Folds
—Poems by Sue Crisp, Shingle Springs, CA—Photos courtesy of Sue CrispKILLING FIELDI have strange power of speech,something I have always known.I’m silent and still, as a hunting Kestrel leaves his...
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Water is the Root
—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA THE STORMI am speaking of the placesWhere the rain no longer knows its name.Its purple hands caress the glass.I bring handfuls of birdsTo the edge of the...
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What Dragons Rasp Their Painted Wings!
A Little Garden By The Sea...—Anonymous Painting THE JOY OF LITTLE THINGS—Robert William Service, 1874-1958 It's good the great green earth to roam, Where sights of awe the soul inspire; But oh,...
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Befriending the Dragon
—Anonymous Dragon PaintingSMOKELIGHTThree Glimpses, Eyes Burning—Tom Goff, CarmichaelI.A disk of orange, and this is the golden sunhours before sundown. If here were the Seine,this scene might be Monet...
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Hope Wears a Blindfold
—Poems and Artwork by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHE RED DRAGONWhy were the children in this dream? There is a wilderness to the domestic silence. The last thing we drew was a dragon with no...
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Seeing All the Secrets
The Fool —Poems are Cynthia Linville's Excerpts from Luna Blanca's Tarot Book—Paintings are from the Tranquil Willows Tarot Deck by Rowen Saille and Tranquillity Fearn0The FoolBungee jump free...
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Big Apple, Next Stop
Runners—Photo by Denise Flanagan, Newton, MA—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA BUS RIDE At California's entrancehere we departOmaha all aboardwith John Denvereven Lord Baltimore's hereget up kid,...
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Writing in Caves
Sculpture—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CA—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MO HOMELESS IN NOMEI was beautiful once,the homeless lady tells the young workerwho’s filling out formsbefore assigning the...
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