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Edgar the Eager Egret and The Best Dog in the World
—Anonymous Photo of an Anonymous Dog—Poems by Richard Hansen, SacramentoBEST DOG AND RUNNER-UP IN THE WORLDIf a manRenowned for his canine pet keptbut his dog isn't with him andhewere to say to mehe...
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A Drifting in the Heart
From the Train—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAA SADNESS A great sadness passes over me. I can see vast distances for moments At a time. There is no breeze. Sheets of heat undulate in the...
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Ship of Air
Ghost Ship of the CaribbeanTHE PHANTOM SHIP—Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIn Mather's Magnalia Christi, Of the old colonial time,May be found in prose the legend That is here set down in rhyme. A ship...
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Imagining Ezra Pound in Track Shorts
Pixilated—Photo by Robert Lee HaycockENTROPHY—Robert Lee Haycock, Antioch, CAWhat more can I say?Everything is falling apart,Has always been falling apart.Two moons dance in the sky now.Teacher is not...
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Storms of the Heart
—Poems and Artwork by Joyce Odam, SacramentoANNA’S SONG(After Anna Akhmatova)So what that I write about grief—grief and melancholy,when this is what I live with, those old foes that know...
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October's Fire
Bird in Leaves—Poems by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAAS IF SHIPWRECKEDin our state of solitary tides delivering tatters of a world unreachable, we gather a wicker...
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Living Lyrically
—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Denise Flanagan, Newton, MABACK IN MY NESTIn the course of a weekendto the North Shorestruggling withscience fiction, playsmaxims, exams,and so much...
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Living With Who You Are
Poppy Statue in front of San Francisco Botanical Gardens—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MO—Photos by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoAUTUMN AT THE ABBEYThrough the window I seethe sun fire upfor the...
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Trekking Our Way to Heaven
—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAWEAVING AROUND THE MASTER for Kenneth Patchen A rainbow arcs over a grey lake. Tired grey boats are drifting Away from the shore....
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At the Fall of the Leaf
Fallen Leaves—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisAUTUMN SONG—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf How the heart feels a languid grief Laid on it for a covering,...
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The Trees of Heaven
Old Dog, Old Tricks—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock AROMA OF HER CLOSET—Robert Lee Haycock, Antioch, CAHer powder box chimed “Golden Slippers”His Bay Rum insinuated itselfFrowns when I banged up the...
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You Call Me Sadness
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTHE SINGER AND THE SUNGBehold me now in autumn.Love after loveI drift through something golden.Name it anything.I die with the sunand live again in leaves.In...
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Poems of Wonder
—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CA TEACHER TALK—Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA We were just talking, a teacher and I, about youand how far you have come in your brief timewith us: Not college material, they’d...
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We All Have a Secret Garden
—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Paintings by Tetsuya Ishida, 1973-2004AMAZEMENTBetween you and mespeaking confidentiallyit's all an amazementhow Odysseus still inspiresour own return to...
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Camouflage Kid
—Poems by J.D. DeHart, Chattanooga, TN—Artwork by J.D. DeHartAM & AMI was and continue to be.And one day will not be.But let's not dwell.Who I used to be was acamouflage kid, never the lifeof the...
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Walpurgisnacht, 2015
—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAA HALLOWEEN It is dark, but not the dark that carries Only night, but dark, the dark that moves Itself to dreaming and we are too long On the road as she...
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Masking the Truth
THE MASKS WE WEAR, THE MASKS THAT WEAR US—Kevin Jones, Elk Grove, CAI have always wondered.Do we mask to disguise Who we are?Or to becomeWho we are?*Had a colleagueWho taught MaskmakingAs Discovery....
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Writing Our Way Straight
Eleven Shadows—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAFLICKER-LIGHT—Taylor Graham, Placerville Through the oaks, a twinkle’s moving.Phosphorescence glinting off pond-water,ghostly wine. Shadows caught...
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The Lie You Sorely Need
—Poems and Artwork (Zendalas) by Joyce Odam, SacramentoFURY OF RED(After Beware of Red by Paul Klee)It might be blood.It might be madness in the eye.It might be the buttons on the door.The windows hide...
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Wantonness Toward Oblivion
Conservation Gargoyle —Poems by Scott Outlar, Chattanooga, TN—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CASYSTEM SHIFT Blood-stained glassdrizzles down a cutthroat skyin a dog-eat-dogparadise gone slightly...
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