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River-Mountain Talk
American River, Henningsen Lotus Park, Lotus, CA—Photo by Candace Flint—Poems by Candace Flint, Diamond Springs, CARIVER-MOUNTAIN TALK (a Terzanelle)A fluid exchange; solid earth and wet River....
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Tournaments of Dreams: An Exultatiion of Memory
Deep Dream Skull—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CATOURNAMENT OF DREAMSThe walls were old wood.Very old, like ships draggedFrom the oceans centuriesAfter they sank.The way your voice...
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Stubborn Illusions
During the Eclipse—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAECLIPSE WATCHING 8/21/2017—Katy Brown, Davis, CA Can you hear the world hushingwith the silent moon rushingto cross the path of the sun?We won’t...
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Eclipses, Earthquakes and Ben-Hur
Eclipse—Photo by Cynthia Linville, Sacramento, CAECLIPSE—Tom Goff, Carmichael, CAAt first light, I must preparefor the onset of second dark.My day moon, you’ll soon bareyour scimitar edge, round,...
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Where Poems Are Born
Planet—Poems and Original Art by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATWILIGHT PERSPECTIVEAfter a drawing by Wayne HoganBird above boat. Boat above trees.Diagonal light equating sunset.Moon-shadow suffers...
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Shadows and Dreams
Crescent Shadows—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CATHROWING SHADE—JD DeHart, Chattanooga, TN I take a bit of shade,a modicum of shadow, and placeit in my bag. Call me someversion of Aeolus. In the...
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Listening for Midnight
Transparent Shadow—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAWHEN SUN AND MOON COME TOGETHERDriving up the long ridge, we stopped here by chance. Then I remember— years ago, down this dirt...
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Let Us Consider
—Poems by Russell Edson, 1935-2014—Anonymous Photos and ArtworkTHE ADVENTURES OF A TURTLEThe turtle carries his house on his back. He is both the house and the person of that house. But...
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Near the Center
D.R. Reading in Locke, September, 2016—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CA —Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAPOETRY HIDING WITHIN ILLNESSI cannot believe the poetry any longer.This course of words after words...
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Those Dusty, Clattering Looms
—Anonymous PhotoSHIRT—Robert PinskyThe back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams,The nearly invisible stitches along the collarTurned in a sweatshop by Koreans or MalaysiansGossiping over tea and...
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The Labor of Poets
—Anonymous PhotoMY CHIHUAHUA KNOWS—Caschwa, Sacramento, CA She knows when I am sleepingShe knows when I’m awakeShe smells the warm velvet cakeChemical changes inside of meThat will eventually...
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Where the Violence is Finished
Frazzled—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAARGHHHWhat ran past,all sad and wan, sad and wan?A man can attack a manas fast as that—as fast as a mad park-swanthat attacks all;a man can stand...
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A Few Important Words
John Ashbery, 1927-2017—Poems by John Ashbery—Anonymous Photos AND UT PICTURA POESIS IS HER NAMEYou can’t say it that way any more. Bothered about beauty you have to Come out into the open, into a...
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The Sum of Summers
Barb Wire—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAGETTING THROUGH AUGUSTThis afternoon, the sum of summers:heat that stops the clock, the tickof dry grass in no breeze. No breath.A rusty coil...
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The Pear Tree
—Poems by Jane Kenyon, 1947-1995—Anonymous PhotosCOMING HOME AT TWILIGHT IN LATE SUMMERWe turned into the drive, and gravel flew up from the tires like sparks from a fire. So much to be done—the...
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This Pulsing of Language
Evening on the Sloughs—Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CATHE GAZE THAT WAS NEVER RETURNEDThis is why we don’t visit the edges of the cityNear the swamps. The fungi is powdery looking.It sticks...
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In the Perfumed Juice
—Anonymous Photo The fruits you give me are more savory than others, their aroma brings me something of you. I ate them again on your mouth, where I recaptured their flavor, with provoking...
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Summer's Ghost
—Photo by Ann Privateer, Davis, CABURN—Ann Privateer, Davis, CAWriting with charcoalin a field once on fire fields that burn to burnuntil they stopped and described contours that softly rolled into...
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Little Picnics of Lies
Beautiful Pansy—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE SUMMER JUST BEFORE(Quatern) In Balboa, nineteen forty one,beside an endless summer sea,the days were...
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As Winter Comes
—Poems by JD DeHart, Chattanooga, TN—Photos by Caschwa, Sacramento, CAWHAT TO WRITE?A sudden sonnetor grocery list? A poemabout my faithor a glimpse into abyss?A fiction story abouta man who wakes to...
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