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Arranging Things
Waiting to Fall—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CA—Poems by Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MO A CHIPMUNK CHORTLES HIS APPLAUSEShe’s not young, his wife.They’ve been together 40 yearsbut when she gardens in her...
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A Room Full of Nightmares
13th-Century Illustrations—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Visuals from a Variety of Sources Providedby D.R. WagnerWITHOUT PERMISSIONShe was making her teaWith black water,Like she could open up The...
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That Little Boy
—Anonymous PhotoA LITTLE BOY WHO WON’T GO AWAY—Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, MO He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood.He lives with that child every day. He relives that Thanksgiving...
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Have Brain Will Travel
—Photos by Robert Lee Haycock, Antioch, CATHE EAGLE’S CRY 30 years ago, Union Valley Reservoir—Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAI readjusted my binoculars, looked again across the inlet....
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The Claiming Air
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATo where it all begins,at some edge of some dreamed sea—some cove of blue that draws me there to sit enclosed, to hide in the blue shadow of the blue air...
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Songs of the Desert
Cactus Clock, Phoenix Botanical Gardens, Phoenix, AZ —Poems by Michael Lee Johnson, Itasca, NY—Photos by Cynthia Linville, Sacramento, CALITTLE DESERT FLOWEROut of this poem grows a little desert...
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We Early Pilgrims
from Balancing Act, quilted by Jan SoulesRiver City Quilt Show, Scottish Rite Temple, Nov. 18-20—Photos by Michelle Kunert, Sacramento, CA—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAWE KEEP ONWe keep on...
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Bring Back the Snake
—Poems and Visuals by Smith (Steven B. Smith)Cleveland, OHSAGE SMOKEStanding with the Cleveland Native Americanswho are standing with Standing Rockthe sage smoke circle endswith Blossom saying"Give...
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It Might Be Blood
Quince in Flower—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CATOWARD LOVEAnd somehow you can’t be afraidOf anything. If you are going To open your mouth to talk aboutLove, there can be no part of it,Or...
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And Make It Count
—Anonymous Photoupon seeing my first book of poetrydeleted from the library’s online card catalog—John Grochalski, Brooklyn, NYthere is a disbelief at firstkind of a how could they! vibethat is, before...
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Everyone's Sky is Different
Pomegranate—Photo by Ann Privateer, Davis, CAWHINING WINE—Ann Privateer, Davis, CAaccept or rejectpomegranate seedsa sweet pandemoniuman eating war miasmaso sweet, so crunchywe unmask beautydelight up...
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Happiness Bubbles
Zentangle Bubbles by Joyce Odam—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CASOAP BUBBLESHappiness bubblesare being thrown to the startled sky,lowering to catch them . . .It is the children,blowing...
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Time To Change Liquor Stores Again...
John Grochalski —Poems by John Grochalski, Brooklyn, NY poem in which i wonder whyi’m not more upset about the death of my catmaybe it’s becauseshe was seventeen years oldand blind and deafstill i...
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A Slow Flight of Blackbirds
Sunrise—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Stacey Jaclyn Morgan, Fair Oaks, CADECEMBER DAYSYou've suspectedthe wind of the pine treeswill soon be whiteinspected in the morning airawaking...
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A Tumbling Jumble of Stars
The Future Man—Painting by Paul Klee, 1933—Poems by Neil Ellman, Livingston, NJTHE FUTURE MAN(after the watercolor by Paul Klee)The future man will have two headseach with a single eyeone for seeing...
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Still Dreaming
Living Room with Afternoon Light—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CATHE FOG BANKSHuge numbers, almost unimaginableExcept by the dreams of physicists.The sun crashes into the endOf the day,...
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Beautiful to the Bone
Firebird Cloud—Poems by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CaI WANT A PELICANThe one I dreamed last night: a nestling leathery of skin before feathers. I reached to touch it...
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Love Letters in Disguise
Window Shopping—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, Antioch, CA OFFERING—Loch Henson, Diamond Springs, CA He offered to go retrieve a fresh garden worm to feed our captive-bred finches.My protest was...
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Something Like Contentment
—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAA DAY OF GRAY, NO RAINa day of grayno rainthe green leaves flutteron the nervous treeI feel the gray airtightenquickenI feel my breath escapebut not meI...
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The Heart of Autumn
Linda M. Crate, Meadville, PAautumn love autumn leavescouldn't burn as brightlyas we didwhen we startled leaves off of treesin the burning heat of the sunsimply at our kiss,and when we went insidewe...
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