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Almost Spring
Titmouse Nest—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAMOSS AND DOGHAIR,an old brown leaf; last summer’s brittle straw, and fine green grass that sprouted under oaks’ lichened limbs; forest...
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Carnivals of the Heart
Above East Locke, 3/3/16—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAAN EVENT ABOUT THE MOON She comes into the room With the moon tucked Under her arm. Her fingers are dusted With that blue yellow...
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Let Her Read
—Anonymous PhotoPOET AS HOUSEWIFE—Elisabeth Eybers (1915-2007)Always a broom leaned against a wall,meals never on time, if they come at all.Days without dates through which she movesempty and stubborn,...
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A Box of Magic
—Photo by Carol Louise MoonTWENTY-BY-TWENTY-FOOT YARD—Carol Louise Moon, Sacramento, CASitting on a porch between two flagsI watch a man ride by on a bike,a box of magic tied to his back.Should I stop...
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The Importance of Now and Here
—Poems and Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA HEAVYAm I not the one with the heart made of lead,eyes made of brass—hands without touch through gloves of numb—am I not that one…?I saw the peacock...
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Life Force
Sunil Sharma of Kalyan-West, India(Photos courtesy of Sunil Sharma) LIFE FORCE Pressed between two limestone slabsIn a slight gap caused by erosionA blooming wild flowerSun-kissed.Odd reliefIn that...
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Stardust of Geography
Le Nuage Noir, 2002—Paintings by Miquel Barceló—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA NOT YET SPRINGNot yet springby the Frog Pondfrozen by icethe secretive wind blurringme from the mountain airby my...
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Old Age is a Passive Slut
—Anonymous PhotosFEBRUARY 20, 2016—Michael Ceraolo, Willoughby Hills, OH 1Sixty degrees, yetstill some snow piles remain But not...
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Angels of the Sun
Stuart Walthall & D.R. Wagner Playing at Moon Café Gallery, Locke (joe chan photos)—Poems and Other Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAA ROOM THE GODS HAVE ABANDONED At seventy, recognizing a...
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Silence
Courtland Bridge—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CA REDEFINED SILENCE—Tom Goff, Carmichael, CAWhen too much to hearis nothing at all to hear,but much to put up with:the silence of the heating...
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Kumquats and Tamborines
—Photo by Ann Privateer ROCKIE—Ann Privateer, Davis, CAFlying over the RockiesWe taste the wineWhen thunder cracksGood times...Screams as we drop.Awareness of life,The best delay.___________________BE...
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When Silence Does Not Work
Yellow Orchids—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAOF SELF’S ILLUSIONAfter Stables, 1913-14 by Franz Marcit was music that fell first to structure of decibels assigned to silence vivified in...
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Magic
Poems by Anne Britting OlesonDixmont, MEEMERGENCE for RuthCruel winter, refusing to surrenderin the face of the calendar's insistence.All night, the winds howllike some beast, woundedbut...
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Poseidon in Street Clothes
Flag Iris, Mother Fern—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Anonymous PhotosCHIA PETSThose terra cotta figurineslike the alligatorlizard, bear or kittenwe cannot help liking youbent to gather our...
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Someone From Home
—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MO—Anonymous PhotosSOMEONE FROM HOMEWhen I was a child we always went to church but only once a year as a family.My father would rise every Sunday and attend the...
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Laced Together By Dreams
The Beautiful Blue-Green Rock—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA“I SIMPLY STATE WHAT WAS TOLD ME BY THE CHINESE PLATE” —Eugene Field The fog...
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Hope Is...
HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS—Emily Dickinson'Hope' is the thing with feathers—That perches in the soul—And sings the tune without the words—And never stops—at all—And sweetest—in the Gale—is...
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Green
Many Greens—Photo by Taylor Graham JUST GREEN—Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAToo spring-early still for pied colors—butter-yellow cups and purple vetch, lupine in every shade of sky. The fields are...
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Wanting to Know Green
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, SacramentoIF YOU WANT TO KNOW GREENI, too, am thisodd musicdrawn out of timelike a reluctant soundas far away as Eden.I am timbered free for thefirst time,for the first...
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Like Mums Humming
Romella —Poems by Romella Kitchens, Pittsburgh, PAEMOTIONAL GROWTH Like Mums humming (and Zinnias) to be understood.Like the spilled seed of the...
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