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How Broken is Mended

James Diaz—Poems and Photos by James Diaz, New York  MONTY II How you glowed in the nightand when I closed my eyes I could hear the rain fallingon your skinand I wanted to memorize the soundso that...

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Walt Whitman Drops By

Gold Calla in Rain—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAMY FIRST RECITALIn my Uncle Scriven's studymy Aunt Sarah brings mea cup of delicious green teawith a cheese...

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Food In, Food Out

This Way—Poems and Photos by Smith, Cleveland, OHSTATUS REPORT 192We go into the wouldto gather wordto share around the fire_________________SISYPHUS BOUNDPut food in, poop food outSleep, wake, sleep,...

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The Loom Times Makes

—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CATHE NIGHT TOUR

The circus intermittently illuminated
As if by the light that visits us
When the danger has passed but is still
Close enough to our blood that...

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Dangerous Invitations

—Anonymous PhotoTHE BLANK BOOK—Russell Edson (1935-2014)   The book was blank, all the words had fallen out.   Her husband said, the book is blank.   His wife said, a funny thing happened to me on my...

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Keeping the Light On (A Poet is a Verb)

Kimberly White reads at Sac. Poetry Center, April 11—Photo by Michelle KunertAFTER THE ECLIPSE—Cynthia Linville, Sacramento, CA  It was a day of U-turns—teeth and shoes and allNow I need to be smoothed...

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My Words to You

—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAFALLEN MOONIt’s not as if a sob can tear your throatthe way glass can shatter in a handor lies from a mouth of words.You know the difference.Constrict...

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Selling Snake Oil

 Cliff House, San Francisco—Poems by David Wright, Sacramento, CA—Photos by Cynthia Linville, Sacramento  RICKYIt was so sad; these elderly grandparents had driven up to        San QuentinFrom Lynwood...

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Marathons and Moreau

Poet and Satyrs—Paintings by Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAAPRIL WINDThe last snow is gonewrapped in a cool sunlightas an Arctic April windintervenes off the coastwhich...

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How to Use a Sword

—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CALEARNING HOW TO USE A SWORD—J. D. DeHart, Chattanooga, TNI used to havea sword but it was bluntand disappointing;I had no idea how to standwith a blade, then one dayat a...

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Shearing Through the Night

D. R. and Daughters (Altered Photo)—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA  WE HAVE NO INFORMATION

We were unable to revive him.
No one is supposed to be that color
Except perhaps a lobster, blue,...

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The Eyes Begin to See

Yellow Iris—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CAIN A DARK TIME—Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;   I hear my echo in the echoing...

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Dragons Trampled My iPad...

Leticia Hernandez reading at Avid Reader Sunday, April 17—Today’s Photos are by Michelle Kunert, SacramentoWHO —Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAWhich kind of owl was calling before dawn, as I opened the...

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How to Reach the Self?

  —Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAASPECTS OF A DARK DIMENSION      After Tulipa, pastel by Maria Sylvester  It’s in the feature known as background—a drooping red flower,huge crowding...

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That Dense, Dark Vine

At the Coffee Garden—Photo by Jane Blue, Sacramento, CAFRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER LOOKS BACK—Jane BlueWe are always seeing, alwaysdiscoveringhow deceitful memorymutates into fiction.When I was a child, I...

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April Colors

—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAALONE AT THE BAYNothing but expansive lightin my murmuring wordsunder the weight of stonesmy vision is unlockedfrom the persuasive...

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Tulips and Cowlicks

—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MO(Anonymous Photos)TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMICSIt’s warplain and simplewhen I fill the feederout in the sycamorewith millet and nigerand sunflower seed.Back in the houseI...

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New Magic

After the Storm—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA  THE SENSIBLE EMPTINESS

The place was described to usBy the blind.  A thoroughfare
Of winds named by the Ancient Greeks.

We were given wings...

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Spiritual Honey

(Anonymous Photo)MAY—Mary OliverMay, and among the miles of leafing,
blossoms storm out of the darkness—
windflowers and moccasin flowers. The bees
dive into them and I too, to gather
their spiritual...

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Happy Shirts

Back of Sign on J Street, Sacramento—Photo by Charles Mariano, Sacramento, CAHAPPY SHIRTS—Caschwa, SacramentoI have five Hawaiian shirtsHanging in my closetThey spread cheerWherever I wear themMy first...

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