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You Know What Poetry's For
Deerman(Anonymous)HE WALKS AT NIGHT—Kevin Jones, Elk Grove, CAIn my hometownIt was Deerman,Unholy progenyOf a human and A white tail.Didn’t seem To matter how,He just was. Always.Human from the...
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The Hours of the Sleepless
—Poems and Artwork by Joyce Odam, SacramentoOF THIS PLACEOut of the harsh landscape comes the lone shadow, out of the gray stone of this place—out of the gray hour—the vanishing sky, comes the bodiless...
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Crossing a Border Divide
Tangerine Moon —Anonymous Photo—Poems by Michael Lee Johnson, Itasca, ILARCTIC CHILL NORTH Alberta arctic chill freezes my life in exile.North Saskatchewan River crystallizes froze thick.My life...
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Birthday!
Humpback Whale Sighted Off the Coast of Rhode Island—Photo by Ed Hughes—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAOFF RHODE ISLANDWatching a first sailing boatin the storm as an observerfloating by this...
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This Minder of Meanders
Evening Crows—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAOLD CROW—Carol Louise Moon, Sacramento See those crows out therein the empty lot?They’re all looking forcarrion, except… there.Look at the old crow atthe...
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Plumes of Dreams
—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAGOBLIN SNOWS A golden eagle dropping down The veil after veil of the morningSpies the precise moment that the snows Begin their perfection, untouched By...
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How to Hold the Apple
(Anonymous Photo) FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETY—George Oppen (1908-1984)1THE GESTUREThe question is: how does one hold an appleWho likes applesAnd how does one handleFilth? The question isHow does one hold...
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Donuts, Coffee, Goblins...
Poet/Storyteller July Rose, Jan. 8Sac. Fine Arts Center Open Mic Night ArtFEST—Photos by Michelle KunertCOFFEE AND DONUTS AT MARY’S PLACE —Kevin Jones, Elk Grove, CA For Georgia FayeHad...
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Honing the Sorrows Down
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoALL NIGHT CAFÉS(Rondeau Redoublé)There’s a late café in a sleepless townwhere customers linger, as I used to do,over coffee, to let time drownthe sorrows down...
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Twixt Ape and Angel
Shakealeg—Poems and Artwork by Smith (Steven B. Smith), Cleveland, OHDEAR OCCUPANTS, ACCIDENTS AND OCCIDENTALS Just yesterday it was yesterday Now it ís already todayConfuse not mercy with weakness...
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Hidden in God's Peace
Girl Fishing—Painting by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)WHEN JANUARY IS REALIn the crunchy first snowmaking my way backfrom a pilgrimage to Vermontlosing my old travel mapwandering in darknesson a...
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Naked on a Sheet of Foolscap
Fuzzy in Vines—Photo by Carol Bales, St. Louis, MO—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MO MAN WITH THE CANEvery morning before the sun comes upthere’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy...
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Grace is Our Swan
Coots —Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CATHE RETURN …The way the lights felt on our Bodies when they came on... ‘Way beyond anything we had Ever felt before. I could see the dancers On your...
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Tales Told in Dim Eden
Dogwood Bud—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CAALL THAT’S PAST—Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with...
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Turning Coots Into Swans
—Photo by Jane Blue, Sacramento WINDOWS—Jane Blue "All the windows were open in her heart.” —D.R. Wagner Means to look out on the whole wide...
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Sea of Shadows
—Poems, Artwork and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoOVER A SEA OF SHADOWSJoyful, we rise like a cloud of angelsflying a straight line;like geese in their true direction, too high to be seen.Like all...
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An Empty Space Among the Stars
Gas—Painting by Edward Hopper, 1940—Ekphrastic Poems by Neil Ellman, Livingston, NJGAS STATION(Edward Hopper, painting)Somewhere on the roadbetween Phoenix and the moonthe reality of lonelinessa reason...
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Elvis, Caravaggio, and Apple Betty
Apple Betty—Anonymous Photo—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAMY POND POEM(for my mother, Betty,on her 98th birthday, January 16th)An unborn nest from the hillcries out from a voiceof small birds...
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That Crazy-Eyed Angel
—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoOUT OF PLACE—Ann Menebroker, SacramentoA boat on a trailer.The driveway filled with sea gulls. Everything out of itselement.The suburb thrusts outits leafy...
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Jars Full of Delight
—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAWORDS EXPLAINING I’ve gone out to gather These words and have brought Them back, so many of them that They have become hard to carry With their meanings and...
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