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Counting Tears in a Bottle
Glad Day, c. 1794—Paintings by William Blake—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA HEARINGHearing, like meseagulls off the seaby window gardensopening in springtimefrom secret signsthat only nature...
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Status Report
wake/sleep—Poems and Photos by Smith (Steven B. Smith), Cleveland, OH THE FIRST POETThe beat of bloodthe flick of flamethe slap of feetthe circled tribe around the firein dancing shadowdemons dungeon...
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A Special Punctuation
Callas—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CATHE ARK (a Celtic tale) I have brought the first living thing To this page and it well knows your name And it can stand in your shoes And show the...
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Chaos or Order
—Anonymous PhotoHOLY WEEK—Donald R. Anderson, Stockton, CAIn between the letterswhere the card stock is olive beigetrees look at us from over the balconybirds sing to us in playful enthusiasm.Behind...
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Weltanshauung
Rain Ripples(Today's Photos are by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA)ZEBRAS, AND WHY THEY PROBABLY DON’T LIKE YOU—Kevin Jones, Elk Grove, CA“Circus zebras run loose in Oakland,After similar escape in...
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So Many Stars
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAI DANCE WITH THE GHOST OF MY SISTERI dance with the ghost of my sistershe is meI am oneit is summerand childhood againwe play catchwe play hide and hidein...
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Opportunities Like Seagulls
—Poems by Louis Kasatkin, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England—Photos Courtesy of Louis KasatkinTHE DESERTED CITYmythic streets evaporate at dawn, leaving only complacent memory to recall imperfectly...
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Stillness for Insomniacs
Loggerhead Turtle Beaching Itself—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Anonymous Photos of First Encounter Beach, Cape CodAT FIRST ENCOUNTER BEACHOff Cape Codnear Wellfleet Bayon a bitterly windy cold...
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Much to Give
Morning Blueberries—Poems by Ann Wehrman, Sacramento—Photos by Local-Photographer-Who-Chooses-to-Remain-AnonymousPERHAPS ONE REASON THAT I HAVEN’T MARRIED I’ll hide the pills, then put them in a...
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Roller Coaster
Medusa Coaster, Six Flags Discovery KingdomVallejo, CA A SHEAF OF EARLY POEMS FROM 1966—D.R. Wagner, Locke CA (some of these were first published in A Book For Barb, published by Undermine Press,...
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When Politics Gets to You...
CHOOSE SOMETHING LIKE A STAR—Robert FrostO Star (the fairest one in sight), We grant your loftiness the right To some obscurity of cloud— It will not do to say of night, Since dark is what brings out...
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As Gardeners Look For Flowers
Bee Pollinating Collards—Photos of Lutheran Church of the Redeemer Community Garden, Sacramento, CA, by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoAPRIL—Tom Goff, Carmichael, CAI look for you as gardeners look for...
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April Stanzas
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA APRIL STANZASI watch the treetops swishing in the air; their joy(or agitation) is what my watching gives them. .That small dark bird—but a...
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Don't Call It Diamonds
First Rose—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA APRIL 1. Apple Fall:Less than a nubbin twig-clinging in April breeze. The sheep have counter-clockwise wended from oak shade to swale...
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In the Jardinère: Dreaming in Cubism
Two Figures, 1913-14—Painting by Liubov Popova—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA THE NEWSWhen my stay-at-home neighborputs on the all-news stationon his all-day cable T.V.with all that...
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A Matter of Beans
Silver Grapevine—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MO—Photos by Stacey Jaclyn Morgan, Fair Oaks, CAMOURNING DOVESInseparable they are,landing one after anotheron the ground under the bird feedertwo...
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Stumbling Into My Old Age
Shadow Self-Portrait—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA OTHERWORLDLY I say to myself These are the faces Of people from dreams. They are constantly surprised Like drunks suddenly Seeing...
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The Sermons of Crows
—Anonymous PhotoSERMONS OF CROWS—David Wright, SacramentoThey try to systematize this earth,these stars, our moon,Wrap it up in a tight cocoonof logic and reason.They ask me tohave faith in senses, and...
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This Junk-shop of Fixables
The Water—Photo by Stacey Jacklyn Morgan, Fair Oaks, CAAPRIL SNOW—Jeanine Stevens, Sacramento, CA West Shore, Lake TahoeHow snow obscures broken fences and closed motels,...
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Here in a Rag of Light
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAREFUSING SHADOWShadow walks beside me under a white umbrella in a white rain. It is twilight. Headlights are blurring on. Shadow is humming in my ear—a...
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