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Madness of the Season
Squash blossom folding up for the night—Photo by Taylor Graham"THE LEAVES ESCAPE THE TREES" —D.R. WagnerThe weather's mad with heat.I feel it already at dawn. Dead dry grass. Oaks stand...
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Night Shadows
The Lagoon—Photo by D.R. Wagner, Elk GroveJULY NIGHT SHADOWS—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MAAir is wide by the shorehovering breezes summona spiral sea high tideoutside my porch,two bluejays lockon rings...
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When Did The Crickets Begin Singing?
Art Luna of Luna's Cafe, scene of long-running Poetry Unplugged on his birthday, July 2013—Photo by Ann Menebroker, SacramentoLATE CONVERSATION—Jeanine Stevens, SacramentoAlong my street this late...
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The Days Pour Out Their Poetry
Graphitti at Bolinas Lagoonin Poets' Corner, the space reserved for poetryEDGE OF THE SEAYou know,Death was asleepWhen the childrenFound his coatLying next to himIn the leaves.They took it downTo the...
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In The Tiniest House Of Time
—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisARE YOU LOOKING FOR ME?—KabirAre you looking for me? I am in the next seat.My shoulder is against yours.You will not find me in stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in...
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Speak To Me Through Shadow
Medusa Cactus—Photo Courtesy of Katy Brown, DavisSTARLIGHT—Patricia Wellingham-Jones, Tehama A full moon dominatesthe midnight skybeaded with starseach individualshimmering lightsnatching back...
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Oh Camera Summers
THE DIMENSIONLESS SUMMERTime is but the/stream I go a-fishing in./Robust art. —Henry David Thoreau (1817-1852)Shall we remember what was, or what we almost recall, out of nostalgia,or the old...
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Forever Into Yesterday
—Photo by Ann PrivateerFREE FALLING—Ann Privateer, DavisI wake up and there’s all this dead hairclinging to alive, growing hair still on my headso I thread my fingers through it alltrying to capture...
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Secrets Yet To Be Told
Gualala Beach—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoTO POETS IN THE NEW SEASON—Tim Bellows, SacramentoSpringtime, come wrap us in maple green,sun-bake us – just to bring on our easy breathing. We have...
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Incredulities of Summer
—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisRUNNING MEN—B.Z. Niditch(After one of my favorite abstract paintings by the Italian Sandro Chia, 1982)It's a hot blue dawnby open windowson the Bay's edge,running mensure of...
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Gentling the Pony
MirrorESCAPED CHARACTERSThe larvae were moving into a serenadeJust outside the window. It sounded Like chewing but it was much more terrifying.A gnawing that sounded like it had been extractedFrom a...
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Night
—Photo by Katy Brown, DavisFOUR POEMS ON THE NIGHT—Rumi1This night there are no limits to what may be given.This is not a night but a marriage,a couple whispering in bed in unison the same...
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Frames of Reference
Cornerstone Gardens, Sonoma—Photo by Cynthia Linville, SacramentoSUMMER—Caschwa, SacramentoSmokers habitually toss buttsWhere a pond used to be…Now its bottom too dryTo snuff them outUnder the canopy...
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Roses of Twilight
LIGHT SHARDSIt was not for the real,melting as two reflectionsin the tallunwavering glassof a dark streetwindowwhere we connectedas real and unreal—one of us safe,one of us in danger—our eyes in dark...
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The Smile That Won't Come Off
—Photo by Taylor GrahamOUT OF RANGE—Taylor Graham, PlacervilleI'm driving past Devil's Panorama— boulder heaps and thorny scrub.Down there, I'd be out of radio-reachin a granite wasteland lost to...
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Numbing Up
Seeker—Photo Enhancement by D.R. Wagner, Elk GroveMY CURRENT PAINKILLERS—Michael Cluff, Corona, CAMixed wines and potonce definedthe extent.Now hamsters, succulentsand bettasdo even better.Ending...
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The Whistled Sound of Words
—Photo by Robert Lee Haycock, AntiochUBU IMPERATOR—Neil Ellman, Livingston, NJ(after the painting by Max Ernst) Ubu, the kingcommander of legions and lunaticsabsolute of absolutesinfallible head of the...
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Wings Upon The Snow
RAINIt wasn't like it to rain this late in the year. She stood by the door and watched the water hitting he porch and the galvanized tub sitting on the hood of the car. The dog stuck his nose out of...
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Not To Speak Is To Die
Poets' Park, Sacramento—Photo by Kathy KiethTHE WORD—Pablo NerudaThe wordwas born in the blood,grew in the dark body, beating,and took flight through the lips and the mouth.Farther away and...
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Each Other's Words
—Photo by Ann PrivateerTIME—Catherine Weaver, Palo AltoTime goes on with each beat of the clock,With each pounding of the hooves of the horse.I'm kicking but can't get out of the cupboard,I feel like...
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