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Stopping the Infinite
Beach Art—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Visuals Provided by D.R. Wagner AT BREAKNECK SPEEDHis face gave nothing away,Maybe a couple of small wrensHanging upside down from the fineBranches of a birch...
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Home-Coming
HOME-COMING—Léonie Adams (1899-1988)When I stepped homeward to my hill, Dusk went before with quiet tread; The bare laced branches of the trees Were as a mist about its head.Upon its...
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Do Not Bite a Ghost
—Anonymous PhotoHOW TO GET A GHOST TO MOVE OUT OF YOUR HOUSE—Michael H. Brownstein, Townsville, N. Queensland, AustraliaDo not bite a ghost. They are chalkAnd have no taste. You can add sage, salt,...
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Coming Home From My Darkness
—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, SacramentoSLEEP MOTELHere is the map to nowhere. If you must go there, follow carefully the marked way. When night comes to your need to rest, the little...
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The RIb Cage of the Creature
—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CA—Poems by JD DeHart, Chattanooga, TNHere is a Simple Testyou can administer any time you like.Just add water, then vinegar.Drop in a dash of pepper.Now measure your...
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The Last Rainbow
—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Anonymous PhotosMARCH WINDSMarch windstuck at youfrom the oceantoward daybreakwatchingthe humpback whalefrom my kayakanchored off shorefree himselffrom being...
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Up, As in Barking
—Poems and Visuals by SmithCleveland, OHMY TREE BARKSMy bark is worse than my bitealthough once my bite was worse than my bark back when I was but burgeoning bark on treebut it was a dogwood tree so I...
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The Last One Dreaming
—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Visuals Courtesy of D.R. WagnerNOTES FROM A JOURNALTrails led out of her eyes.People were walking on them.A few of the people we thought we Recognized.The moon, crooked...
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That Stinking Pile...
—Anonymous Photo of Anonymous ArmSOME RIGHTS ARE WRONG—Caschwa, Sacramento, CAThe case pending before the courtCenters around an issue ofFreedom of speechWhich is a rightRoe v. Wade and Brown v. Board...
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Decisions, Decisions
—Anonymous PhotosSNOWMELT—Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAAn old country store, patronized by locals, shaven or not; whitewater rafters,and families taking a scenic route from somewhere to somewhere...
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The Tenacity of Secrets
—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CASCENE FROM A MOVIE: A VOYEURISMIt doesn’t mean she didn’t think about it—walking home with the stranger who had shared an hour with her in the...
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Ghosted Rainbows
—Anonymous PhotoEVERYTHING RED FOR THE QUEEN—Michael Lee Johnson, Itasca, ILEverything is red in the kingdom of the queen.Matador hat with barnacles,witch white hair to the shoulders,tickling the...
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Parchment Histories from Shooting Stars
—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Anonymous PhotosDOVESDoves on the rooftopsbefore this alcovebirdsong will riseon an open grassy fieldforgetting the hourlodged in this dawndestined to escapefor a...
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California Romantics
Chico Wildflowers—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAGRASS BLADES—Carol Louise Moon, Sacramento, CAI went about picking a few grass blades green and supple,and laid them on my porch to dryas the sun...
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The Edges of the Dream
Girl, Crow and Mushrooms—Anonymous Artwork—Poetry by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Visuals Provided by D.R. WagnerGUNNERS: RUNNING WITH THEMDo you have gunner emissions over fifteen?Then dismantle the...
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Virtual Reality
Flourish III —Painting by Jonas GerardRIOT ACT, APRIL 29, 1992—Ai Ogawa I'm going out and get something. I don't know what. I don't care. Whatever's out there, I'm going to get it. Look in those shop...
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You and the Bear
Luna Moth—Anonymous PhotoALIVE JUST ONE WEEK—Donal Mahoney, Belleville, ILAlive just one week,the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.It has no mouth and...
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Stepping Through the Mirror
Seed of the Week—Anonymous PhotoTHIS PHOTOGRAPH :Apart Wedding Change of heartsAlas The white dress Green park benchSunshine lost in the trees of the lowering skyHeads turned away Folded hands Legs...
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Worshipping Trees
Buds—Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—Poems by Michael H. Brownstein, Townsville, N. Queensland, AustraliaA DEATH TO A STUDENTThey hire a guest preacher to mourn himAnd he cannot remember the...
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The Reinventions of April
Two Girls Reading, 1934—Paintings by Pablo Picasso—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAANOTHER INTERVALAnother intervalof music draws me outanother color by the riverinforms the crocus floweranother...
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