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The Wine of Hidden Lives
Rockport, Massachusetts—Photos of Rockport today by Denise Flanagan—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MATHE SUNSHINEThe sunshine is over the ocean'sPacific maritime and meridianin times of fleeingfrom...
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Days of Our Lives
South Yuba River—Photos by Stacey Jaclyn Morgan, Fair Oaks, CA AUGUST 4, 2016—Michael Ceraolo, Willoughby Hills, OHI reheat last night's leftover coffee,go outside to get the weekly paper,do the...
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The Breath of the Grackle
Dawn: View of Sacramento Treesfrom UC Med Center Window—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA THE NIGHT FOLDEDA burning along the edges of the cloudsExactly where the night was headed.From the...
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Visitors
Ann Menebroker, Nello Olivo Wine CellarPlacerville, CATWO POEMS FOR ANN MENEBROKER, d. 2016—Art Beck, San Francisco, CA On the porch, skirt tucked, waiting for rain as the false spring falters, you...
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Save Some for the Dog
Sunflowers Locked Up —Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CACOOKBOOK—Caschwa, Sacramento, CAWe are a nation of recipesHealth and hygieneWeights and measuresSuit to tasteThe boiling pot of...
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Rabbits Rabbits Pickle Pickle
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA THE RABBITS RABBITS PICKLE PICKLE YEARSAfter “Runes” by R.S. Thomas from No Truce With The FuriesCrippling through timeless stairways—beginning January...
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Prufrock and his Peach
JD DeHart—Poems by JD DeHart, Chattanooga, TNBITING ITAnother euphemism for death,another polite manner of skirtingthe edge of meaning.Another dance on the delicate bladeof semantics.Makes you wonder...
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Oranges in the Desert
—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAWE METWe met in Augustas it were yesterdaywhen I reviewed movie scriptsfor a summer jobthen danced awayat a Fifties mixerfrom the cotillionmy aunt made me attendand...
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That Trump Card
—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MO—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAMY WALL STREET GARDENIt’s midnightand I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlifeamong the flowers...
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Soulitone
Phoenix Botanical Garden—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Photos by Cynthia Linville, Sacramento, CAJUST BEYOND THE BOG—SOULITONE for Alice AndersonThe fields of eternityJust beyond...
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Loss of Habitat
(Anonymous Photo)STRANGE RECLAMATIONS—Michael Ceraolo, Willoughby Hills, OHA house on the East Sidewhere eleven women had been murderedand the smell of death had been blamedon the sausage factory next...
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Lorsque les Chats Étude Française
—Anonymous PhotosTHE CAT WHO COULD SPEAK FRENCH—AND MANY OTHER LANGUAGES AS WELL—Kevin Jones, Elk Grove, CAAnselm Hollo was A Finnish poet,Translator, BBC news writer,TeacherAt the Iowa...
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Bouncing Balls of Light and Imagination
Joyce's Cat, Spirit—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE GRAVEN PANELSCome to the stone wall for the story. See how the history reveals. You are there, too, as part of life’s repetitions....
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Heaven Is...
Dog Days—Photos by Stacey Jaclyn Morgan, Fair Oaks, CAWHEN HEAVEN IS A SWIMMING POOL—David Wright, SacramentoIt was an August Sacramento day,Nineteen hundred and seventy five.One-hundred-eight...
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Caravaggio Nights
Footprints in the Sand—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CA—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAON CARAVAGGIO NIGHTSOn Caravaggio nightsbelieving I'm in the furyof Fall sudden shuddertaking my leavesamid...
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Looking for the Nice in the Nasty
Slim Shadow Smith—Photos, Poems and Artwork by Smith (Steven B. Smith), Cleveland, OHTHE GRASSHOPPER’S TALEMy life’s dog food for do goodersHot dodgers dogging God’s zoneFur sure of itself Per path and...
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Warriors of the Light
Magical Creature—Anonymous —Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CABOUND BY A DREAMINGRamon brought the book with the outsideIn it to the twilight chamber this evening.We had not seen the book in many years.It...
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Between Eternity and Time
—Photo by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CADEAR ANNIE—Taylor GrahamThis time, you’ll come along.So many kinds of gardens up here where foothills rise toward mountains. I’ll show you ridges of orchard...
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Chicken Pox and VD
Venus in the Fall—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CASUMMER FACE—Katy BrownMountain sun brands memories of sunlit streams and sapphire dragonfliesdarning summer hours ontoa hatless child, chasing joybeside...
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The Wilderness of Quiet Land
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CACHAMPAGNE ANNIE (Her New Glasses)Now that she is nearly blindshe looks to life’s distortionfor relief. She drivesher car through shiny fog,humming her...
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