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End-of-Summer Low and Slow
Hangtown Creek—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CATOWN CREEK IN SEPTEMBERIt’s early Tuesday after Labor Day, Main Street wakes. A young man with bookbag pauses to consider watercolors in...
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Wandering Shadowy
The Dark Knight Rises—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA—Anonymous Photos NINE-ELEVEN PIECEWhere towers were, a fragile monument,twin slender lights anointing first fall nights.I will not consider more...
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The Worn Furniture of the Imagination
Moon Rowboat—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Visuals Provided by D.R. WagnerCONTRIVANCEIn the easy light just before evening,He discovered a flaw in the fabric.A small bit that did not look at allLike...
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The Scent of Apples
—Anonymous PhotoAFTER APPLE-PICKING—Robert Frost, 1874-1963 My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may...
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How Much Do Words Weigh?
—Photos from the annual Fair Oaks Chicken Festivalby Michelle Kunert, Sacramento, CACLEANING OUT THE CLOSET—Cynthia LInville, Sacramento, CAMy hand touches thick cottona beach sheetstriped pink and...
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That Gift of Apples
—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAAS IF ALL TIMEsomewhere my death sits waitingwith gifts of applesin his lapsmiling into the directionfrom which i will comeand practicingthe...
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Dream of Tears
—Poems and Photo by David Lee, Folsom, CADream of tears 10-4-2014The inmate lays upon his mat, it’s dark and he’s aloneCan’t see his hand before his face, loneliness to the boneHe sings some tunes,...
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Apples, Ever Apples
—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAJUST UP THE ROAD, APPLE HILLBerries and grapes in season, pumpkins for October and of course the place is named for Apples. Every apple taste and...
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Incest in the Sky
Sun Cage—Poems and Photos by Smith, Cleveland, OHSTATUS REPORT 244New day sun rises unseenabove slate grey sky thick in cloudsstained with past promiseframing new beginning of old gameof survive,...
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Imagining the Wart Hog
—Anonymous IllustrationTROUBLE—D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAI am only imagining that wart hog.No one was on the streets. LightsWere sparkling like memories. There were particular songs for the hoursWhile...
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Unlearning the Forest
Deep in the Woods—Anonymous BEACON OF DARKNESS (inspired by the thoughts of Michael Ceraolo)—Caschwa, Sacramento, CA Poetry has the Acoustical propertiesOf music:Onset, duration, releaseWith...
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One More Time!
Aspen Grove—Photo by Jeanine Stevens, Sacramento, CA—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA MISSIVES AND MISGIVINGSA poet and middling playwright, Robert Browning,pens letters to Elizabeth Barrett...
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Beyond the Unlit Turn
In the Shadow of Branches—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA—LittleNip by Robin Gale Odam, Sacramento, CA PROPHETIC DREAMINGevery night the horse gallops through the frantic dream through...
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Whispering With Our Leaves
—Poems and Photos by Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CALYRICAL TREESOur roots need to dig into earthfingers unfoldinglike leaves being born.Our bodies need air, need rain,sun will loosen knots of pain.Touch...
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In Deep of Woods
Forest Chords—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CACORDS, CHORDSThose familiar woods—pine snag rising above manzanita thicket, the great black oak lifting leafed-again boughs to bless...
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Grinning Like Fools
—Poems by David Wright, Sacramento, CA—Anonymous PhotosNOBODY KNOWSI've always had to question everything.(But still, there is free-will, and a tree is a tree.)As a kid, a little shit I suppose, I'd...
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The Gift of Trancing
Garden Restaurant in Locke —Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Visuals Provided by D.R. Wagner A SAILOR’S DREAMI have plans for you and haveThe names of ships you may boardThat will take you to islands,...
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Declaring Our Offenses
(Anonymous Photo)DAY OF ATONEMENT—Nancy Haskett, Modesto, CA She meant well,I’m sure,when she wished me a“Happy Yom Kippur,”just like she would wishsomeone else “Happy Easter,” but this holy dayis...
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This Hushed October Morning
—Anonymous PhotoOCTOBER—Robert FrostO hushed October morning mild,Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild,Should waste them all.The crows above the forest call;Tomorrow they...
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Plagiarizing the Light
Truth—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATAKE MY WORDS for what they are—they are words.I never meant to say them,but the brokenness was there and the heart replied—spilling like blood.I...
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