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Finding the Lost Sorrow

Leonora Speyer—Painting by John Singer Sargent, 1907—Poems by Leonora Speyer (1872-1956) —Anonymous Photos of Victorian GardensA GIFTI Woke:—
Night, lingering, poured upon the world
Of drowsy hill and...

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Open Your Eyes

—Anonymous Photos of Crape Myrtles, Bees—Poetry by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CAWe could train a surgeon to slice away a man's soul.To see what is left there. If he still lives. Or not.As a man. A human...

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The Smoke King

THE SONG OF THE SMOKE —W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)I am the Smoke KingI am black!I am swinging in the sky,I am wringing worlds awry;I am the thought of the throbbing mills,I am the soul of the soul-toil...

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Are We There Yet?

Apricot Buds—Spring is Just Around the Corner!—Poems and Photos by Caschwa, Sacramento, CAIT BELONGS TO THEMBack in the last decade of Baby BoomersMy growing family moved from a triplexNear the new...

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Time's Piano

Waiting For The Music—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CATHE MUSIC IN THE WATERIt is the music in the water when I look inthe moon flows through my hairfish dart through my eyesmy hand meets...

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Of Dachshunds & Yo-Yos & This Coming Friday

Coyote—Anonymous PhotoThere are wolvesOut there.More likely coyotes.Could be they'dLike you..Coyote understandsHe'll never beIn the family album..Coyote's friendOffersLunch. CoyoteGets stuckWith the...

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Hearing the Music

Dark Fungus—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA     THE LATEST HITSO music of the shredder playing tunes of yesteryear, the not-so-golden oldies, how they repeat repeat like a stuck...

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Raining Cats & Gods

Attack Cat—Poems and Photos by Smith, Cleveland, OHSTATUS REPORT 140Happiness is a catslow stepping on a plush blanketsoft unfoldedto dance the cat dance of press press paw pawpurr so pure it’s heard...

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What Do You Love?

Jobe Art 2—Poems and Photos by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CATHE REALLY LONG SUMMER OF LEE WHITENER’S WIFEThere was once a really long summer when we all made love a lot. All of my friends. It was almost...

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Celestial Business

—Anonymous Photos—Poems by Jeanine Stevens, Sacramento, CABALANCHINE’S WOMAN    In my other life, I might be a person     instead of an animal.            —Tanny    Kicked out of ballet class, she...

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Echoes

—Photo by Ann Privateer, Davis, CATHE GUESTplays musichearts quicken rememberingswirling poolsof turquoise,horse back ridingthrough winter'sfirst snow,desert blooms declaring spring,regal clouds at...

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Ah, Tango . . . !

Winter Green—Poems and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA  A SHADOW MOVING FROM THE WALLAfter “Waltz” from The First Echelon by Dmitri ShostakovichFine piece of music—hypnotic—one might even want to...

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Speaking of Fake News . . .

PART II of “THE THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM”—Michael Ceraolo, S. Euclid, OHIn the forty Earth yearsafter the publication of Wells' book there had arisen a few new mediawith the ability to deliver storiesto...

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Psalms to the Skylark

—Poems and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CALITTLE I KNOWLook, overnight they’ve appeared, a stealth-army under leafless oaks; pushed up from underground to take over the hillside....

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Cacophony & Candlelight

Composer Sir Arnold Bax, photographed with trumpeters ofthe Royal Military School of Music, outside Kneller Hall, 1947.(from Sir Arnold Bax website, collection of Graham Parlett)—Poems by Tom Goff,...

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Improvisations

Jobe at 61—Poems and Visuals by James Lee Jobe, Davis, CAHAND TAKES HAND TAKES HAND. At the end of the serviceour congregation joins handsto bring a prayer into the world.Hand takes hand takes...

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Looking for Sven

Fox—Poems and Photos by Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Eliot, Ontario, CanadaDOOMERS & GLOOMERSIt’s the end of the world again.Every few weeks some crackpot comes out of the woodwork announcing our impending...

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Painting Shadows

—Ann Privateer, Davis, CAAN ISSUE OF EYEBROWS—Carol Louise Moon, Placerville, CAThen there’s the issue of eyebrows.When I think of eyebrows,and I often do,I think of the Persians,the beautiful Persian...

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Forming a Masterpiece

A Stillness—Poems and Original Artwork by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAVAN GOGH’S WHITE ROADAfter A Road in Auvers After the Rain by Vincent Van Gogh, 1890After rain is always fresh.Colors deepen.Clouds...

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Air Full of Spices

—Anonymous Photo of Cinnamon Bark—Poems by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CAOF CINNAMON’S ARBOREAL INNER SKIN            The air is full of spices.                        —Alan Rickman, in Sense and...

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