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What Does It Mean?
—Poems and Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE BIRD OF LIFE Somewhere in time a gold bird explodes.It is all covered with fire.It is falling into our burning eyes.We can hear its bright...
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Truth is a River
The Smile of the Flamboyant Wings—Painting by Joan Miró—Today's Poems are by Neil Ellman, Livingston, NJTHE SMILE OF THE FLAMBOYANT WINGS(oil painting, 1953, by Joan Miró) Better not to touchthe waves...
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Canvas of Peace
—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Carol Louise Moon, Sacramento, CATHE DISAPPEAREDDo you who love poetry,which is like itselfthe Logos, the Wordin all creationfrom my children's...
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"Author! Author!"
—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MO—Photos of the Fair Oaks Chicken Festival by Michelle Kunert, Sacramento, CATHE PLAY’S THE THINGEvery daythe same play.The moment I rise,the first act...
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More Than Meets the Eye
—Poems and Photos by Robert Lee Haycock, Antioch, CARETREATThere are listeners crawling in the walls.There are unknown uncles in your face.There are massive machines.There are wooden shoes.DOGS AND...
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The Lovely Hours
Double Alaskan Rainbow—Anonymous PhotoLIVE BLINDLY AND UPON THE HOUR—Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904) Live blindly and upon the hour. The Lord, Who was the Future, died full long ago. Knowledge which is...
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Burned Out, Yet Shining
Trifle—Photo by Ann Privateer, Davis, CAWe wrote a few wordsIt came togetherLike the trifle you see here * * *A full moon and starsBurned out yet shiningTeach the value of silence * * *Traveled...
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Birds of Miraculous Flight
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CABLACK BIRD-SEED In the birdcage of deaththe bird sits preening its flightless wingit does not feed andit does not look in the little...
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Relationships on Life Support
—Poems and Photos by Michael Marrotti, Pittsburgh, PATHE MADNESS IN HER EYES—Michael MarrottiShe used toreward me for toleratingher belligerentbehavior with irreplaceablegifts to contradicther...
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Inside Secret Shadows
Stagecoach, Old Sturbridge Village—Anonymous Photos—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MASEPTEMBER 15thThe day started offwith static on the radiotrying to hear musicof a Bach solotrying to be...
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This Garden Uneven
Soul Fire—Poems and Artwork/Photos by Smith (Stephen B. Smith), Cleveland, OH SKIN DEEPMeandering through Mammonin search of moral tamponsGotta clothe the surfaceto make us worth usCan't be down and...
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Warriors of the Light
—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA(Visuals Courtesy of D.R.)A BURST OF CROWSI thought they were flowers,So soft and that reaching upward,But no. They had eyes, dark and glitteringAnd the petals were...
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to California...
—Photo by John Roland BalesA MOMMA CAT SPEAKS UP—Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MOI tell you it’s not easy being a cat in Coloradoespecially on this farm where I stopped on my wayto California.This farmer...
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Yes!
After Dancing—Photos by Stacey Jaclyn Morgan, Fair Oaks, CAYES—Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CAYes to you and me, togetherand separately. Yes to that featherfloating on the ocean. Yes to devotionand the art...
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Keys to the Heart
—Poems, Zentangles and Photos by Joyce Odam JOYCE PLAYING THE PIANOOften, passing by the piano, she would finger the keys, playing random notes that sounded musical to her. She could not playthe...
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What Wisteria Knows
Okei Doll—Poems by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA POLITICS, POETRY The Debate’s on TV, pre-empting our monthly read-around at the Senior Center. The Center doesn’t care, it’s after-hours. The...
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Underground Thunder
Galaxy III, 1968—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Artwork by Enrico Donati (1909-2008)T.S. ELIOT'S FOOTFALLSA boat off the north shoredrags by slowlyas Gloucester voyagersleave the port of...
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Reluctant Pacifism
—Poems and Photos by Michael Marrotti, Pittsburgh, PARECIPROCAL DAMAGESI expressed myselfthrough violencewhen words ceased to beLeft a mark that would fade in time but left a lasting impressionI...
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A Morning of Ghosts
D.R. Wagner in Locke, September, 2016—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CA—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CATOURNAMENT OF DREAMSThe walls were old wood.Very old, like ships draggedFrom the oceans...
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Joy, Suffering, Birth & Death
—Anonymous Photo HUNTING DOWN THE WORDS—David Wright, SacramentoUnless words come flying in,If they won't and I try to force the issue,it reminds me when we opened the curtain of the big window...
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