Poetry
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Poetry: “Lamentation”, Featuring Image: “Ruth Bader Ginsburg”
Lamentation ‘Tis known age comes to each and all who’ve been But what, I ponder is such change about? No more, soft babe-in-arms, oh how I miss that skin, Like alligator, now, and that fact makes me pout. A mind, in school days, fast, at last enjoys Slow cogitation in this elder manifestation But…
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Poetry: “Ten Days”, Featuring Image: “Married to Art”
Ten Days My friend, I write to reach you: It’s the loneliest thing in the world— waiting to be found. Days annotate themselves before us, before we have time to arrive before we have memorized the proud trot of a passing morning. You are behind my eyes, where I lead my life…
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Poetry: “Bird Stories” Featuring Image: ‘The Eyes of Bougainvillea”
Bird Stories I aging birds that once hopped fields, sang on clotheslines, now straddle trees. hot wind across the desert fluffs cactus wrens, branches bend; eaves hide warblers that echo dark canyons. under cumulous skies, thunder claps like flaps of feathers upsetting the balance of alighting night owls II a robin’s…
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Poem:”The Slanted Winds Down Guerrero Street” Featuring Image: “Way Back Home”
The Slanted Winds Down The afternoon fog will roll in from the North …
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Visual Art Submission “Lawson”; Featuring Poetry: “Down The Long Night”
Down The Long Night Written By: Gloria Keeley About the Author: I’m a graduate of San Francisco State University with a BA and MA in Creative Writing. My work has appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Slipstream, FORUM and other journals. I graduated from CCSF and I taught at CCSF for 34 years and was…
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Poetry Piece “Nyanza” Featuring Image “History”
“Nyanza” Written By: Tom Luttrell About the Author: Tom Luttrell was born in Oakland and lives in San Francisco. He has a BA from UC Berkeley and takes classes at CCSF. “Nyanza” is his first published work. After I take down the recycling and the compost, when my hands are free, I grab my mom’s…
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“Tapestry: Circling the Square” Featuring Image “GG Fortune Cookies”
Tapestry: Circling the Square Poetry Written By: Thomas A. E. Hesketh About the Author: THOMAS A. E. HESKETH was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on a cusp, in the last half of the last century of the last millennium; none of it his fault. He enjoys poetry because of its verbal range, except the caesuras,…
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“Freak Show Bill” Featuring Visual Art Piece “The Dragon”
Meet the Author: Steven Louis Ray is a multidisciplinary artist working in traditional film and darkroom processes, in addition to writing and recording ambient & experimental music and writing poetry. He’s currently studying poetry at San Francisco’s City College. More of his photography can be viewed at stevenlouisray.com freak show bill there’s a certain fluorescence…
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The Heartbeat of City College by Tehmina Khan
The Heartbeat of City College THE HEARTBEAT OF CITY COLLEGE after Malinda Seneviratne’s “The Heartbeat of My Country” The heartbeat of City College pounds the pavement from Balboa Park BART station uphill to the Science Building then down to the MUB and later up the circle to the library before it closes at 2:45…
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You Invited Me on a Picnic – Vivian Imperiale
It was time to go. I walked outside to wait for you. You were picking me up for a picnic and I was delighted I’d be with you. You didn’t talk about your AIDS diagnosis — mysterious letters I didn’t comprehend. What was that, anyway? Instead you were just you, which was everything — the…
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