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The Gold of the Poets
Year of the Fire Monkey—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAWE HAD BEEN WALKINGWe have been walking out hereFor a very long time. The darkColored glass of this valleyWas making us sick. It...
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When Cupid Strikes
—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoSONNET 18—William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of...
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Spring Procession
—Photo by Taylor GrahamSPRING PROCESSION—Taylor Graham, Placerville, CADown Main Street, everybody’ssandwiched between curb and storefront, elbows and boots, blaring bands, hoots and hollers. But...
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Pages of White Birds
—Poems and Zentangles by Joyce Odam, SacramentoLATE NIGHT MIRRORSI thought it was the night, but it was onlythe very late waywords stood in the way of clarity.So much went by me that I should...
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A Time Traveler’s Maintenance Guide, Sent to Us on His Birthday
—Poems by William S. Gainer, Grass Valley, CA—"Locke" Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoA TIME TRAVELER’S MAINTENANCE GUIDEOld age flaring up. I've had it a while now, got it badeverything hurts—...
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Black Tulips
—Anonymous Photo—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA A RECORDINGClearing out old 78'sand jazzin the companyof Louis Armstrong's voicefor the gazebo bazaarnear the serene watersoff Cape Codthe North...
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Sweetening the Wheels
—Fungi Photos by Sam the Snake Man—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CADESIGNAs one who skims and rejects designer cardswith sap that drips from each word, every line,I want to belong, in love at least,...
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Looking for Diamonds
Dragon Head Sculpture by Ai Weiwei—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA BECOMING A SONG I will open my hand. I will make the gesture I learned in the lowlands. It makes the world Look like...
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Glitterers & Panther Caps
Baby Mushrooms—Anonymous PhotoMUSHROOMS—Mary OliverRain, and thenthe cool pursedlips of the winddraw themout of the ground—red and yellow skullspummeling upwardthrough leaves, through grasses, through...
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Sun and Shadow
Neighbor's Garden With Cat Fence—Photo by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoA MOMENT IN APRIL—Jane Blue, SacramentoA cat sits on a piece of cardboard,collapsed box, in sun and shadow.Sun and shadow, sun and...
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If Light Could Hold Substance
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoWORD THEFTGuiding line. Words of another. Steal them. Finder’s keepers.Do not judge my intention lest I weep apart and never again be creative:We are fragile....
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Springtime at the Circus
—Photo by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CATOXIC INSOMNIA REVELATIONS—Scott Thomas Outlar, Atlanta, GA Run ragged to the bonepierced with mercury/enter the marrowsip on the floodof bloodfrom opened...
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Shadows Flooding With Light
Shadow and Fence—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CA NEW IN TOWNA dirty-blond strangerwith a long grayish beardfrom Provo Utahslept on a chimneyone snowy nightresting...
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Trash Cans and the Big 62
—Anonymous Photos—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MOHIGH SUMMER IN THE COUNTRYFar from the cityway out in the country a hot afternoon in high summeras we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail...
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Oh, Angel of Light!
—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA —Photo by D.R. Wagner DISINTEGRATED When they tore the door off theThe yellow world,We surrounded ourselvesWith flaming birds. They quickly formed the wilderness.One...
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City of Cups
Lichen Patterns, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona—Anonymous Photo SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES, LICHEN—Lew Welch (1926-1971)All these years I overlooked them in theracket of the rest,...
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High on Invincibility
—Anonymous PhotosI HAPPEN TO LIVE IN A TRAVEL TRAILER—Carol Louise Moon, SacramentoShe’s lively, she’s gorgeous, 75 pounds,and now, she’s my new German Shepherd.“Sit, lie down, quit pacing, wait . . ....
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The Endless Ball of Tangled String
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoON RANDOM COMMENTAfter “Under the Curve of Blue” by Stefano RestaTaste the color red:is it not slightly bitter, and too rich, and far too expensive for...
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That Sandpaper, Time
Courtland Bridge—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CANOVEMBER WOODS(After the tone poem by Arnold Bax)—Tom Goff, Carmichael, CABranches, always and everywhere the branches,wild beats like panicked hearts...
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March Blues
Bamboo Trophy II—Today's Art and Sculptures are by Frank Stella—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAMARCH BLUESA bluebird carolsunder the pine branchesnear the ice pondin a revelationthat spring is...
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