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Secret Songs
Linda Imbler—Poems by Linda Imbler, Wichita, Kansas—Photos Courtesy of Linda ImblerAPPLESThe orchard photos remind me.Apples,pictures of trees bearing apples,apples as crisp as the fresh chill airthat...
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Green Home in October
Coyotebush—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CATHE TRUTH OF THE PLACEShe dumped her weekly waste in the one empty garbage can. The other guy in the rental duplex—fireman, hero of public...
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Messengers of Odin
Yosemite Raven—Poems and Photos by Nancy Haskett, Modesto, CAI speak to the ravenat Olmstead Pointas he struts aroundon the asphalt,glossy and blacklike winged obsidian;I admonish him,because he is too...
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The Singular Crying of the Heart
Magical Place—Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Visuals Provided by D.R. WagnerFOG VISIONSThe fog took the form of a man,Bad ass, walking around swallowingEvery vista, hiding the foghornsDeep within its...
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Hallylooyer
—Anonymous Photo of Squirrels Run AmokWHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN—James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock,And you hear the kyouck and gobble of...
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For Better or . . .
—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis, CARIOTS IN THE AGE OF DYI—Caschwa, Sacramento, CA (a fusing of recent news items with Nancy Haskett’s “On Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”) A collection...
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In the Open Window of Her Life
Apothecary—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAALONE AT THE LABYRINTHAgain I misread the signs I must construe to get through this haunted land.How many ghosts have gone before?I...
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What Beauty is For
Leading Lines—Poems and Photos by Maria Rosales, Paradise, CADESERT ECHOES This desert room holds little of me—Most objects speak of your history, not mine. Do I have a...
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Fairytale Forest
What Grows—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CAKITKITDIZZEIt’s everywhere underfoot here among towering ponderosa, this whole visible countryside of ridge and drainage where my dog leads...
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Light Bulb Psalms
Walking in Orange Light—Poems by Judy Katz-Levine, Norwood, MA—Photos by Katy Brown, Davis, CAPOEM FOR THOSE WHO ARE LUCKY IN COFFEEHOUSESThe electric blues guitar solo inspires a mocha grande...
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The Remains of the Poem
—Anonymous Illustration —Poems by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CA—Visuals Provided by D.R. WagnerAFTER THE HEATDynamite in the blood.The veins are fuses, hotWith mockingbirds in the Long air of Delta summer...
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Adlestrop
—Anonymous PhotoADLESTROP—Edward Thomas (1878-1917)Yes, I remember Adlestrop— The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.The steam hissed....
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Slicing the Dark
Hiking the Falls—Photos Today by Maria Rosales, Paradise, CAMAY HE WHO BEATS THE BUSH IN YOUTHYET CATCH THE BIRD WHEN OLD—Tom Goff, Carmichael, CAI live my life in widening circlesthat drift out over...
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Train Wail in Fog
Into the Dream—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE TRAIN STOPThe terrible trainis bearing down on the night.Its whole voice is callingand its loud feet are clackingon the...
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Stealing Time
Monument—Poems by Scott Thomas Outlar, Atlanta, GA—Poems by Katy Brown, Davis, CAFOUR CHAMBER MESSAGE I can smell the smoke from here.Karma licked my wounds sixteen times,sent me spinning through...
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The Call of Wild Geese
Railroad Tracks—Poems by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—Photos by Taylor GrahamRIDING THE RAILSHe said he’d be on the railroad tracks.Riding the route they used last year for Pony Express—historical...
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Fairy Light
—Anonymous Moon PhotosSNAKES—Michael Estabrook, Acton, MAI’m undergroundthe walls are covered with tilesblue tileslike in a subway stationso I guess I’m in a subwaybut some of the tiles have holes in...
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Poems for the Season
Meditation —Poems and Photos by D.R. Wagner, Locke, CAI AM THE MOONA frightful symmetrySeen through the leaves of night treesJust as the moon clears their confines.I will tell you that this is only...
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Sunday
—Anonymous PhotoThere is No Remembering—only storytelling: making upsome lovely plotline I canlive with: retool those uglyshoes that pinch, make themlooser to cut out the wincing,get me through yet...
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Longings and Wantings
—Photo by Ann Privateer, Davis, CAFLY CITY—Ann Privateerbound to this bodylimited by its edgehow I wish to flybut wishes, like loverscan be elusive.longings and wantings fly,sometimes very high,away...
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