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Call it Green, Like Youth
Depiction—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA ESSENCEHere in the dusk, by a slow bright stream,the unmindful child—ever at the brink of curiosity,with childlike faith and followings—comes...
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Forbidden Language
Broken—Poems by Neil Ellman, Livingston, NJ—Poems by Katy Brown, Davis, CaTHE SNAKE OIL SALESMANOn a Sunday in April he came with his waresas he had come so many times before full of promises in...
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Childhood's Landscape
—Poems by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—Anonymous Cow Photo which appeared in Medusa's KitchenMay 22, 2017[Both the cow and the photographer are anonymous, that is...] COW IN THE ROAD The road...
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Bouncing on the Moon
—Poems by Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CA—Anonymous Photos OCTOGENARIANShe writeson the night skyone hundred timesWILL LOVE LIFEAS LONG AS I LIVEuntil she believesin her bonesuntil chalk-dust from...
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Dressed in Birdsong
Telling Tales —Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Visuals Provided by D.R. WagnerCARS COMPLAININGThere really isn’t any turning back.I keep looking down the hallwayOut to the park acrossThe way. Broken...
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Daggers of the Mind
Coast of Ireland—Anonymous Photo—Poems by Eamonn Stewart, Belfast, IrelandA DAGGER OF THE MIND BY GASLIGHT In the mall I sat down, tired of walkingAnd overheard two young spides talkingAbout the Wasp...
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Music for Ghosts
Beam—Photos by Stacey Jaclyn Morgan, Fair Oaks, CAINSOMNIA—Cynthia Linville, Sacramento, CAThe whirl of the night-fanplays music for ghostsMemories wander as youdrag on the notesForget the moon Shun...
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Dreaming the Lion
—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE LION IN MY DREAMI am in a wide field.Distance is pervasive with its shimmer.A lion is loping toward mein a lazy manner.There are edges I...
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Fool's Calculus
Devon Balwit—Poems by Devon Balwit, Portland, ORTRAPPEDI’m socked in but can’t help straining for something beyond fog. There’s no horizon, no cliff, no beach house windows winking sky. I orient by the...
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Taking Life As It's Given
Eye of Dog—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAEYES Up a crooked alley and throughthe green door that opens on a new photo...
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Midnight Blue Dreams
California Kelp Forest—Anonymous Photos—Poems by JD DeHart, Chattanooga, TNSEAWEEDI've been livinga fishy life at the bottomof an ocean of midnightblue dreamsThe surface is a fadingmemory of...
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Forgetting How to Drown
—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Visuals Provided by D.R. WagnerAN ESCAPE: INNISHERE REVISITEDNo one has touched his body in a very long time.And he watches it as if it wereA golden boat lifting from...
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He Knew Me
—Poems by Carol Louise Moon, Sacramento, CA—Anonymous PhotosSWEDISH TAILORS ON TABLE TOPThere could have been any numberof reasons why four tailors fromStockholm sat cross-legged upon a sturdy table in...
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Ionosphere via E String
—Anonymous PhotosNEAR NEWCASTLE—Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA Diverted from our plans for Folsom Lake,we tread the dust and vestiges of dungthat dot the horsetrail-spiral overlook.It must be this year’s...
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Unreachable
—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE UNREACHABLEMy father in a soft moonlight,waiting for some dream to waken him . . .I listen to him cryingbut he doesn’t know I am his...
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SomeOne New
—Poems by Allison Grayhurst, Toronto, Ontario, Canada—Anonymous Photos to Celebrate the Summer SolsticeSomeOne New Change is crouchingon my back deck,behind the pillarsand rotted wood.Change is...
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Chasing the Ponies
Pony Hand-Off, 2017 Pony Express—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAOBSESSION: THE PONY I must have been surreal to the guy at the bus station; asked if he’d seen...
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They Call Me Bone
Eyeline Smith—Poems and Photos by Smith, Cleveland, OHBONEThey call me bonein secret nameno one knows is secretCovered heart alonecarries weightwaitsMeat is meat if no magicmagic no magic no...
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Dimensions of the Evening
Walker—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Visuals Provided by D.R. WagnerPAPER LANTERNSTonight the paper lanterns have been lit,Given a voice of light to the riverbank.They utter wave forms and harmonize...
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Leap, Spectral Rose
Joyce dancing the Odamesque w/Danyen Powell on her 80th birthday, Aug. 7, 2004 —Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CADANCE THE ODAMESQUE—Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA I sing of one good poet whose words dancenot...
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