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Albatross
Black-Footed Albatross—Anonymous PhotoTo stand on a high place, a cliff over the ocean, seeing pelicans circle, at first ungainly, then plunging like flung stones—this was what he loved under a gray...
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Public Art
—Anonymous Photo“CHEWY, WE’RE HOME!” —Han SoloCritics often said Of Henry James:“He chewed more Than he bit off.”Not a bad thing, Really. No chokingOn big bites.*First dinner hourOn a first...
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The Edge of Winter
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoSIGNS OF LIFE AT THE EDGE OF WINTERI wait for spring at this sad edge of winter, wait like a leaf that has no metaphor but me. I am the thought thatmade it...
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Davy Crockett & Stone Soup
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAGROWN IN THE DARKA day without rain.Under a spindle-tree, five puppies on a patch of weeds.The old woman said they’d grown inside the dark of her...
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There May Be An Angel
Shimmering—Paintings by Jackson Pollock—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAICE FISHING DAYThe gull that snatchesfish from the oceanas Arctic winds blowpulls on our imaginationat the edge of the...
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Hieroglyphics in the Snow
—Photos by Cynthia Linville, Sacramento—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MODREAMS I CAN’T REMEMBERDreams I can’t remembercause a conflagrationfire hoses can’t put out.Dreams I can recallarrive in...
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In the Mouth of Love
In St. Francis of Assisi, Sacramento—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAFOLDING AND UNFOLDING This morning my beliefs Infest the day like mud gods Painted to resemble things I thought of when I...
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Suddener Than We Fancy
—Anonymous PhotoSNOW—Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener...
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The More You Know...
Worms on Leaves —Mandala by Carol Louise Moon, SacramentoTHE ROSES BEHIND CECE MILLER’S TAP—Kevin Jones, Elk Grove, CA After hours we’d continueInto the alley behind the bar.Sometimes, in a festive...
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Snow-Dancing
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoTRACING THE HISTORYIt is a long time into the eloquence of stones. Ravenscarry their own death under their black wings. ~Along the invisibility,...
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Poems From Six Decades
Skeletorsmith—Photos and Poems by Smith, Cleveland, OHCONFESSIONS OF A CONSERVATIVELet others munch spare frogs legs and things Or their mother's tidbits so fine. Not me. I prefer wee bumblebee wings...
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Talking Poetry in the Snow
Hans Christian Anderson's "The Snow Queen"—Artwork by Elena Ringo—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA AT CRANE'S BEACHWith a generous furof gentlenessyet apparently snugmy kitten murmurs to measking...
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Dreamers of Better
Jenner—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Photos by Cynthia Linville, Sacramento NIMBOSTRATUS IN WINTERElongated gray and purple clouds.These lengths of cloud wind-sculpted sideways.Despite some ragged...
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Dreams Made of Silver
Window, St. Francis of Assisi, Sacramento—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CATHE DAUGHTERS OF LONGING This belongs to the night. It has those lights about it. It has that shape we love That...
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The Poem is a Dance
Sugo—Anonymous Photo THE POEM CAT—Erica JongSometimes the poemdoesn't want to come;it hides from the poetlike a playful catwho has rununder the house& lurks among slugs,roots, spiders' eyes,ledge...
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You Are That You Are
—Photo by Robert Lee HaycockA FOUNTAIN FLOWS IN FIVE DIRECTIONS—Robert Lee HaycockThe gardener tells me to call him “You are that You are.”I know that’s not His real name nor will He tell me mine.He...
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Wiser Than Death
—Poems and Zentangles by Joyce Odam, SacramentoBODIES OF CATSBodies of cats line the winter streets. I counted three this morning. Their death spread over the city. My regret exaggerated them. I could...
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Your Little Rhizome Heart
Mushroom Caps —Poems by Loch Henson, Diamond Springs, CA—Anonymous PhotosHAUNTED LUNGSThe toxicity of your pastcomes to haunt your lungs.Could it be that the very objects you cling to from your past...
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Only Poetry and Prayer
Anna Akhmatova—Portrait by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAIN MEMORY OF AKHMATOVA(1889-1966)Past a discerning memoryof Anna Akhmatovareading her poetry noteswith dim eyes...
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Glass Clowns and Bed-bugs
Poems by Neil Fulwood, Nottingham, England—Anonymous PhotosTHE BED-BUGS OF CTHULUThe tyranny of ageless depthsand the granite tombsof forgotten gods; the abrasive oceanand the things that will risefor...
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