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Poetry's Chimes
Crema Lantern—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Photos by Stacey Jaclyn Morgan, Fair Oaks, CA ESCORTINGEscorting the violetsto plant in the groundno one but a birdon an Elm branchis heard with...
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Lady K
Sleeping Lady—Poems and Visuals by Smith, Cleveland, OHLOVE POTIONIn the cool of the Fallwhen we first fellshe was my B-movie star stable,scrappy girl reporter one date,witty secretary à la lusty...
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Living in Poetry
Fantasy Castle—Anonymous Painting—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Visuals Provided by D.R. Wagner BASE CAMP I am beyond the base camp this evening. I have traveled alone to be here and yet I choose...
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Print is Still Breathing
Jack Mahoney —Photo by Brian MahoneyJack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat...
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Mayday! Mayday!
—Anonymous PhotoTHE SACRAMENT OF KNOWING—Cynthia Linville, Sacramento, CAStart here and work forward:The Garden of Eden.A warm, ripe peachfragrant on the tree.A palm risesgrasps:lips and tongue and...
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The Gold Air
The Sky Birds Fly Through—Poems and Photo Enhancements by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CASHADOWSNow in the bluish air,the lonely birdsand darkened windows where the sorrows stare,personified,and all the...
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Payment is Always Due
High Street, Wombwell, England—Anonymous Photos of Wombwell—Poems by Paul Brookes, Wombwell, EnglandTO CATCHabove coral canopy of treesthrow nets of birdsto catch fish cloudsjellyfish...
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Scribble and Malpractice
A Flower that Grows Out of Itself —Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CA—Poems by J.D. DeHart, Chattanooga, TNTHE WOMAN I LOVEI am not good enough, for sureA pinwheel of mistakes and misspeakingFor the woman...
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This Living Skin
Anonymous Medusa PaintingAFTER READING A FRENCH SYMBOLIST ANTHOLOGY —Tom Goff, Carmichael, CAIf this world is a living skin, an organthat membranes all created life immuneby power of green—as even lady...
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Daughters of Longing, Dreamers of the Sea
Illustration by Maurice Sendak—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Visuals Provided by D.R. Wagner THE DAUGHTERS OF LONGINGThis belongs to the night.It has those lights about it.It has that shape we...
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Pulling the Plug
Mr. Tod, the Dirty Rotter—Illustration by Beatrix PotterTELEVISION—Roald Dahl, Cardiff, Wales (1916-1990)The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER...
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Fragile Blessings
—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, Antioch, CAAn argument of flowers—Robert Lee HaycockOut backThe apple, the lilac and the red bud are engaged in a heated debate about St. Joseph and the Golden Legend.The...
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Begin with Daydream
Fifteen Petals—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE YOUNG MEDUSAno wigs for my babyher snake hairhas been washed withsinging shampooshe watches it dry in the mirrorshe tries ondark dresses...
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From the Depths of Tomorrow
—Poems by Allison Grayhurst, Toronto, Canada—Photos of Darling House in Santa Cruz, CA by Katy Brown, Davis, CAIN PREPARATIONDown is the way I carrythis new soul in my mouth,like the weight of pure...
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Like a Beautiful Swan
—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA—Anonymous PhotosMARCH'S TREESHe saw the fir treesin the home harborwhile ice fishingfor smelton the breezy tailstashed bait of his boatwishing that hookswould...
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Amy and the Moon
Moon of My Delight—Illustration by Henry Clive, 1934—Poems by Amy Lowell (1874-1925)THE LETTERLittle cramped words scrawling all over the paperLike draggled fly’s legs,What can you tell of the flaring...
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A Careless Chase of Birds
—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Visuals Provided by D.R. WagnerCLOUDS.These were the high mountains.Bear and lions walked these very ridges.Stand here and look into the valley.I am told you can feel...
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Tomorrow?
Nuthatch, 2017—Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CANUTHATCH—Taylor GrahamWe have birds in our box. So young, theymay not have flying feathers—how could they know clouds and the sift of sun through...
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That Invisible Web
—Anonymous PhotosOLIGARCHY SOUP—Caschwa, Sacramento, CA Old family recipeDeveloped in a secret placeNo one allowed to take notesDeath to traitorsPour it into a crock potLike jigsaw puzzle piecesUntil...
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Your Own Private Forever
First Impression—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CACOGNIZANTYou are one. Then you are two. Then you are all three—one self at a time—blendingthrough veil after veil of evolution. You go...
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