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With a Camel Caravan
(Anonymous Photo)TRAVEL—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894I should like to rise and go Where the golden apples grow;— Where below another sky Parrot islands anchored lie, And, watched by...
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Trial by Summer
El Dorado County Wagon Train, 2011—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CATHE HITCH—Taylor Graham, Placerville Highway 50 Wagon TrainThe juxtaposition’s timeless— pickups,...
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Safari
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CASAFARI old car trapped in weedstwisting sideways like a wreckso dusty and hot to sit inpretending to drive itno tires on its...
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Wings
Mystic Dahlia—Photos by Stacey Jaclyn Morgan, Fair Oaks, CA IRANIAN POETRY LADY —Michael Lee Johnson, Itasca, ILThe first time I saw your face, cosmetic images, dust, dirt, determinationfell across...
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Art Has No Hearse
—Photos by Cynthia Linville, Sacramento, CA—Photos by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAFALMOUTH VISITA striking wind moves and liftsme undermy black umbrellawith the black sun- shined seaon the raysof a...
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Marooned
Bridal Veil Falls, Fresh Pond, CA—Poems and Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAMAROONED Maroon—not macaroon— hot afternoon—how the thoughts gush —how images come lumbering through the mist— Marooned...
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Half-Understood Truths
Succulents, Bolinas, CA-—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA 2:30 AMThe bees are awake.This is not a dream.The night is thick with June.Their libraries of flowers are openEven as the winds are...
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The Man in the Moon
Ostin Moon—Photo Courtesy of Carol Louise Moon OSTIN MOON—Carol Louise Moon, Sacramento, CAThe ManThe MoonKeener of JazzNew Orleans loverToe TapperDapper Dan ManCrooning tuneswith the MoonsA...
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Mid-Year Perspective
—Photo by Ann Privateer, Davis, CAPERSPECTIVE—Ann Privateerbreaking the formulafree to hang outI ride the tunneloutside of town pull into a lot with old vehiclesfrom a low place I see the street abovea...
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The Rhythm of the Road
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAHER FATHER’S FUNERALNow she is dressed forthe funeral,conservative in brown; her hair is a wild entanglementthough shecombs and combs it down; thesun is...
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Icarus and the Rattlesnake Hide
El Dorado Hot Springs, Tonapah, AZ—Today's Photos by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoTHE SEASONS —Marchell Lyon, Chicago, ILHer hair is silver like birch leavesLike confection sugar gray strandsSparkle...
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Treasure Trove
The Cat of La Méditeranée—Today's Paintings by Balthus(Baltusz Kłossowski de Rola, 1908-2001)—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAA BALTHUS DREAMA tableau of colorfilled in my sequencesof a Balthus...
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Truth Du Jour
Storm Front—Poems and Photos by Smith(Steven B. Smith), Cleveland, OHTRUTH DU JOURGet the truthGet your red hot truthsTruths du jourTruths of the dayToday's truth todayYour style of whileYour version...
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Mornings Filled With Swords
Dream Selfie—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CANEAR THE CENTERI threw my heart aheadOf me into the night,Hoping it would light the way.The light was very narrow.It is, however, inscrutable.I...
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Second-Hand Gloves
(Anonymous Photo)WAIT—Galway Kinnell, 1927-2014 Wait, for now. Distrust everything if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven’t they carried you everywhere, up to now? Personal events will become...
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Midsummer Night Passages
Oakscape with Deer—Photo by Taylor GrahamGOLDEN KINGDOM—Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAUp the highway, through hills rehabbed from wildfires we rememberall too well, through dynasties of Ponderosa Pine...
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Fugues of Effort, Brambles of Desire
—Poems and Artwork by Joyce Odam, SacramentoFUGUEShe carriesa glass of wateron a balancing-stickand movesvery slowly across the roomwhich isas wide as theslow expanse of dayand the shimmery passage...
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Round Moon Among Silver Stones
—Photo Enhancements by Stacey Jaclyn Morgan, Fair Oaks, CANEAR JĂŅUVAKARS (LATVIAN ST. JOHN’S DAY)—Tom Goff, Carmichael, CAYou’ve brought me where the nearly solstice sunJunes it over the...
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Cape Shores in Summer
Shark in Cape Cod!—Photo by Wayne Davis—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Paintings by Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903SHARKAn Atlantic great white sharkoff sunny Cape Codwanders in the darka shadow of an...
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John Wayne, High Tea, and Parents Night
—Poems by Donal J. Mahoney, St. Louis, MO—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAA SUMMONS FROM THE OZARKSThis is Granny in the Ozarks calling.Please come down before spring goes away for summer.The geese are...
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