CQ 2018-2024

 CALIFORNIA QUARTERLY  IN 2018-2024




Table of Contents of California Quarterly
Vol. 50, No. 3, Autumn 2024

California Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Autumn 2024) Edited by Maja Trochimczyk. With A History of CSPS by John F. Harrell. Cover Art: Photo by Peter D. Tillman of Navajo Third Phase Blanket, ca 1890-95. Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico (Wikimedia Commons) 

California Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • The Saffron Gatherers — Ruth Holzer 7
  • to sunset a dream — Deborah P Kolodji 7
  • Passenger — Kareem Tayyar 8
  • A Note on Pronunciation — Craig Harris 9
  • Moss — Peter Hamlin 9
  • Writing Longhand Feels Strange — Hedy Habra 10
  • Fine Print — Erin Lee Brown 11
  • Money for Soul — Darragh Coady 12
  • Carolina Girlhood —  Cheryl Black 13
  • Spark in the Static —  Kelly Talbot 14
  • Shipwreck   —  Joe Bisicchia 15
  • lego blocks  Deborah P Kolodji 15
  • Going Nowhere   Shanta Acharya 16
  • The Gift of Emptiness — W. C. Gosnell 17
  • The Last Photograph of Chopin  Matthew J. Spireng 18
  • Her Favorite Chair is Covered with Thread  — James Morehead 19
  • Y Fargen Newydd (in Welsh) — Byron Beynon 20
  • The New Deal  — Byron Beynon, tr. 21
  • # 1092 —  Greg Schwartz 21
  • Crescendo  —  Darragh Coady 22
  • Time into Night   Mary Elliott 24
  • Vino Verde   Deborah Paes de Barros 25
  • Evergreen  Niyah Dahl 26
  • Ambiguity  Michael Fraley 27
  • I Wish  Cami Rumble 28
  • Our Shared Impressions — Mark Belair 29
  • Sweet Iced Tea  — Danny Barbare 29
  • Lullaby —  Don Palmer 30
  • The Moon Falls   Dan Potter 31
  • What Does Size Have to Do with It?  —  Cecil Morris 32
  • Dandelions  —  Danny Barbare 33
  • Soft Breaths of Pear and Blackberry Currents   Allie Schleifer 34
  • Question —  Lorraine Jeffery 34
  • After Rain   Selen Ozturk 35
  •  Mountains  —   Peter Hamlin 36
  • The Weight of Winter  —  Gavin Kayner 36
  • Allegiance   Carolyn Chilton Casas 37
  • Twin Trees  —  Michael Fraley 38
  • June   —  Michael Blackman 39
  • Thoreau’s Concert —  Livingston Rossmoor 40
  • Birdsong —  Mary Elliott 41
  • Hike at Sea Ranch —  Selen Ozturk 42
  • sunset peer   —  Deborah P Kolodji 42
  •  On Some Days  —   Hillary Langford Taylor 43
  • Counting Tomatoes   David Starkey 44 
  • Being Bent Flower   —  Daniel H.R. Fishman 45
  • Once   —  Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue 46
  • eucalyptus boughs  —  Deborah P Kolodji 46
  • If I Have Wings   —  Livingston Rossmoor 47
  • Wings   —  Stewart Breier   48
  • Sunshine Girl  Steward Breier 48
  • City Sunset  —  Mark Belair 49
  • straining sunlight   Deborah P Kolodji 49
  • All There Is   Allie Schleifer 50
  • Watching the River   Byron Beynon 51
  •  #1128  —  Greg Schwartz 51
  • Moose Licking Tire  —  David Starkey 52
  • Persimmon Cookies    Michael Blackman 53
  • 음양 Yin & Yang —  Jey Ley 54
  • Vessels (Arabic with tr.)  — Abū Bakr ash-Shiblī, trans. Will Pewitt 55
  • Piety, Piercing (Arabic, with tr.)    Abū Bakr ash-Shiblī, trans. Will Pewitt 56
  • Om Mani Padme Hum   Jey Ley   57





Table of Contents of California Quarterly
Vol. 50, No. 2, Summer 2024
California Quarterly Vol. 50, No. 2 (Summer 2024) edited by Nicholas Skaldetvind,
Cover Art: To Sleep, To Dream, To Remember by Ambika Talwar (2006). Mixed Media Collage — oils, acrylic, fabric, crayons, plant, paper on canvas. Size: 24”x 24”

 
TABLE OF CONTENTS

California Quarterly, Volume 50, Number 2, Summer 2024 

  • That’s the Trouble —  Casey Fuller 7
  • To Money and Material   Phil Linz 8
  • Static  Emily Barton Altman 8
  • After Brecht: Those Who Eat Their Fill —  Jim Ellis 9
  • A Poem for Portraits   Anselm Berrigan 10
  • Stealing a Car with Eric Snyder     Casey Fuller 12
  • Villanelle No. One     Jeremy Rendina 14
  • Promotions are for Suckers      Anselm Berrigan 15
  • What Good is a Fist?   Maja Trochimczyk 16
  • Na co ci ta pięść? (in Polish)    Maja Trochimczyk, tr. 17
  • Evening Storm, New Mexico    Kate Partridge 18
  • Down on Land   —  Kate Partridge     20
  • The Turn Towards Winter  Bruce Bennett 21
  • Somehow the Ghost Tree Still Blooms     Melinda Palacio 22
  • Statues      Aidan Coleman 23
  • The Hamptons    Casey Fuller 24
  • Orcas Biting Propellers    —   Anselm Berrigan 25
  • Fault Lines       Sara Hailstone 26
  • Insula     Phillip Newton 27
  • Speculative Futures (#3)    Anthony Caleshu 28
  • A Thousand Noises    —   Bruce Bennett 29
  • Pectus Excavatum   —   Barrett Warner 30
  • Bedchamber with Bright’s    Rosa Lane 31
  • Ode to the Plumeria in Her Hair   —   Melinda Palacio 32
  • Nesting in Love’s Wildness       Ambika Talwar 33
  • Fulgurite Love   —  Sara Hailstone 34
  • Coffee      Alessio Zanelli 36
  • Anoint Anoint Anoint    Linda Saccoccio 37
  • Deer Pause   —  Candace Walsh 39
  • Static 2  —   Emily Barton Altman 40
  • Tacit Accidents   —   Candace Walsh 40
  • A Colleague Remembers  —  Bruce Bennett 41
  • Let’s Meet Somewhere   —   Candace Walsh 42
  • Both Camps —   Thomas McGrath 43
  • Song   —   Thomas McGrath 43
  • Winter Crows   —   Don Heneghan 44
  • Winter A Time Machine   —   Linda Saccoccio 44
  • Pieces of String      Thomas McGrath 45
  • Möbius   —  Phillip Newton 45
  • Art—A Deep Slice    —  Henry HeartSong 46
  • Augury   —  Kate Partridge 47
  • On Cherche l’Afrique   —   Jane Stuart 48
  • Susan’s Calls are Like  Anthony’s Supper   —   Rosa Lane 49
  • Manna in Our Palms   —   Ambika Talwar 50
  • Sprouting Wings   —  Jane Stuart 51
  • No I Did Not Want To Write   An Essay So  —  shilo virginia previti  52
  • Far Reach   —  Rosa Lane 54
  • Madonna of Music   —   Anne-Marie Brumm   55
  • Dragon Fruit Awareness  —  Maja Trochimczyk 56
  • Evening by the Fire   —  Jane Stuart 57
  • Static No. 3   —   Emily Barton Altman  58




Table of Contents of California Quarterly
Volume 50, No. 1, Spring 2024

California Quarterly, Volume 50, Number 1, Spring 2024

Edited by Beverly M. Collins. Cover Art "Blue Dragonfly and Pink Lily" by Beverly M. Collins

CONTENTS 

I Walked Down California

Paige Moreau

7

The Benefit of Doubt

Jan Mordenski

8

Siren Song

William Ray

9

The Closet Door Opens Itself

Ace Boggess

10

Longing

Linden Van Wert

11

Reborn at Glen Oaks Ranch

Dave Seter

12

Good People and the Old Blue...

Charlene Langfur

13

Heritage

William Mainous II

14

Behind the House

Gloria Keeley

15

Spectacle (in Arabic)

Abd al-Karīm Ṭabbāl

16

Spectacle (translation)

Randy K. Schwartz, tr.

17

Love Affair

Louise Moises

18

Native

Lance Nizami

19

I’m Dreaming Again

Anndrea Scroggins

20

Catholic

Henry Stimpson

21

Truth

Rosemary Ybarra-Garcia

22

At the Art Laundrette

Paul Willis

23

Mars stones

Gregory Cecil

23

Love Note to Guardian Angel

Dave Seter

24

Call It Us

Cathy Porter

25

Falling Stars

D. L. Lang

26

Perseids

Michael Potter

26

Picnicking with Dorothy…

Mary Ellen Talley

27

Lakes Basin—The Real Gold

Raphael Block

28

Rage

Claire Scott

29

After

Paul Willis

30

Spilling Seed

John Briscoe

31

Lost Love in Plaqueville

Marie Lecrivain

32

Walking Past Your House…

Cathy Porter

33

Learn

Greg Moglia

34

Quick

Lynne McNamara

35

Karma Dahlia

Jen  O’Neill Pickering

36

Music

Sarah Baker

37

Night Is Different Now

Lois Marie Harrod

38

Dear Tree

Michael Meyerhofer

39

The Day I Was Born

Dominik Slusarczyk

40

They Always Come Back

Ace Boggess

41

new summer hours

Gregory Cecil

41

Some Stories

Claire Scott

42

Hit On at the Pool

John Grey

43

Prescribed Burn

Jason Harlow

44

surmises of yellow

Gregory Cecil

47

Granddaughter

Doreen Beyer

45

Heimweh

Jeffrey Taylor

46

A Usual Day

Shamik Banerjee

47

She Knew

Claire Scott

48

Cradling the Grave

Lynda V. E. Crawford

49

Remembrance in Shades of…

Kathleen Gunton

50

A Foggy Sunday Morning

Joyce Greenberg Lott

51

To My Brother on His Birthday

Ellen June Wright

52

Under Water

Beverly M. Collins

53

Begin to Heal

Charles Harmon

54

Wind and Wonder

Shamik Banerjee

55

You Again

G.H. Mosson

56

After a Great Sorrow

Mara Fein

57

The Reunion

Laurie Hollman

58

 

 

 

Cover Art (Photo): Blue Dragonfly and Pink Lily, Captured on 7/8/2022. Canon Photograph by Beverly M. Collins, http://www.beverlym-collins.pixels.com.





Table of Contents of California Quarterly
Vol. 49, No. 4, Winter 2023

California Quarterly, Volume 49, Number 4, Winter 2023, Edited by Maja Trochimczyk, Cover Art: Popocatepetl, Spirited Morning—Mexico by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943). Oil on board, 25x29 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Sam Rose and Julie Walters, 1932

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Earthquake Weather — Madeleine Lamm 7
  • Holding On —  Allegra Silberstein 8
  • Eating Poetry —  rg cantalupo 9
  • The Irish Rain —  Owen O’Sullivan 10
  • Outside, Tonight —  Jane Stuart 10
  • Rain and Chopin    —   David Sapp 11
  • Beethoven’s Tuning Fork   Byron Beynon 12
  • During Music —  Katharyn Howd Machan 12
  • In the Starry Dynamo —  Ed Meek 14
  • Snowshoe  Allison Burris 15
  • Winters     Linden Van Wert 15
  • North    Madeleine Lamm 16
  • Northern Night   David Luisi 16
  • The Snow Lotus  — Maja Trochimczyk 17
  • Unbelonging —  C.M. Rivers 18
  • Learning to Pray  —  Carlo DiOrio 19
  • White Mountain  — Dana J. Graef      20
  • Roadrunner’s Prayer   —  Bren Ohta 20
  • Dance on Wire   Beverly M. Collins    22
  • Wondering about God  —  Allegra Silberstein 23
  • Aurelius at the Pedro Point Car Park —   David Rosenheim 24
  • The Night We Cried in the Theater   Allison Burris 25
  • Now    —   W. C. Gosnell 26
  • In Each Other, We Are the Complete Version of Ourselves — Phillip Jason  27
  • Black  —  rg cantalupo 28
  • Postcard —  Madeleine Lamm 29
  • Slow Waves    Nicholas Skaldetvind 30
  • The Sea and I   Emilio Gomez      31
  • Sound Is the Ocean   —   Karin Charlotte 32
  • Beach Sand   —   Arlene Downing-Yaconelli 33
  • The Thousand of Precise Things —   Vivian Underhill 34
  • Flight Pattern —  C.M. Rivers 35
  • Moment of Contact    Emma Ashley 36
  • all the light I see —   Susan Rogers 36
  • Tilt —    Jennifer M Phillips 37
  • Tightening Laces   —  Iwo Drury 38
  • Road Story    Emma Ashley 39
  • My Mother’s —  Abie Irabor 40
  • Just Like Mother    Maura Harvey    41
  • Child   —   Eliot Cardinaux 42
  • & The Song Goes On, Unsinging Everything    —   Eliot Cardinaux 43
  • Sunset —  Mary Elliott 44
  • Quantum Entanglement —  Mark G. Hammerschick 44
  • Waxing and Waning   —  Phillip Jason 46
  • Petition —  Jayne Jaudon Ferrer 47
  • Dream —  Marlene Hitt 48
  • A Collection of Dreams —  Michael Fraley 48
  • Falling Snowdrops, Dancing Rain —  Jane Stuart 49
  • The Night Heron —   Jennifer M Phillips 50
  • Embroidery  —  Maura Harvey 51
  • Ascending   —  W.C. Gosnell 52
  • By the Incubator —  Jane Stuart  53
  • Message —   Alessio Zanelli 53
  • Winners of the 36th Annual Poetry Contest 54
  • 180º Transitions  Sharon Chmielarz (First Prize)  55
  • Old People are Such a Drag — Claire Scott (Second Prize, ex aequo)  56
  • Badassery  Susan Wolbarst (Second Prize, ex aequo) 57
  • Call Me Shahed  Mark G. Hammerschick (Third Prize) 59
  • Cover Art: Popocatepetl, Spirited Morning—Mexico by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943). Oil on board, 25x29 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Sam Rose and Julie Walters, 1932
  •   Contributors in Alphabetical Order                                              60 
  •   CSPS Contest Opportunities                                                        60  
  •   CSPS Newsbriefs 2023, No. 4 by Maja Trochimczyk                 62       
  •   Publishing Opportunities with CSPS                                           65 
  •   2022 CSPS Donors, Patrons, and Membership                           66 
  •   CSPS Membership Form                                                        68       





Table of Contents of California Quarterly
Vol. 49, No. 3, Autumn 2023
California Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Fall 2023), edited by Nicholas Skaldetvind
Cover Art: Little Gland (Pulp Painting on Handmade Paper)
 by Nicholas Skaldetvind (July 2022), 10.5” X 8”
 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Toppled Statues  — Jim Dunn 7
  • In the Cathedral  — John Grey 8
  • Unhomeliness —  Paul Schreiber 9
  • A Father’s Death — Paul Schreiber 10
  • Tonight I’ll Dance —  Paul Schreiber 12
  • Brineflight — Jeff Graham 14
  • In Praise of Blue — Ruth Bavetta 15
  • The 1970s  — Charles Rafferty 16
  • I Like to Think of Myself as Having Goals — Charles Rafferty 16
  • Purses  — Charles Rafferty 17
  • East Ridge, Ascot Hills — Gregory Cecil 18
  • Mais Où Sont Les Neiges D’Antan?  — Rick Anthony Furtak 19
  • Tumult  —  Lauro Palomba 20
  • Snow — Susie Meserve 21
  • List —  Susie Meserve 22
  • Hiking in Tilden Park on the Last Day of Summer   —  Susie Meserve 23
  • Hopland Overhead —  Susie Meserve 24
  • Homeward Over Sonora Pass, August 2020, Listening to a Podcast About the Painter Egon Schiele, Who Died of Spanish Flu  — Susie Meserve 25
  • Pieter Brueghel The Elder’s Fall of Icarus —  Kevin McDaniel 26
  • Window Magic  — Dianna MacKinnon Henning 27
  • Inchanting  — Rhea Krčmářová 28
  • Anamnesis — Anthony Caleshu 29
  • Το Αιώνιο Μάτι Τησ Σιωπήσ —  Γεράσιμος Σωτ. Γαλανός 30
  • The Eye  — Nicholas Skaldetvind, transl. 31
  • Promesa Aérea  — Almaguer 32
  • An Airy Promise — Margaret Saine, tr. 33
  • Eigentlich Sollte Man —  Karl Greisinger 34
  • Actually One Shouldn’t —  Margaret Saine, tr. 35
  • Evening Tree —  Edward Garvey 36
  • The Fox God’s Shrine  — Jim Ellis 37
  • Lost in Stockholm —  Thomas Lavelle 38
  • Any Wonder — Thomas Lavelle 39
  • The Muse — Craig Cotter 39
  • Night Hoops — Thomas Lavelle 40
  • Saturn’s Children (After Goya) — Cary Barney 41
  • Broken Bird (c. 1988) — Cary Barney 42
  • Broken Bird II (2023) — Cary Barney 43
  • Tête à Tête — Carolyn Jabs 44
  • January —  Mathias Toivonen 45
  • Arctic Circle 1 — John James 46
  • Arctic Circle 2  — John James 47
  • Arctic Circle 3 —  John James 48
  • Spring  — Edward Garvey 49
  • Watching the Garden Embrace Light  —  Beau Beausoleil 50
  • A Movement —  Adam Day 51
  • Night   —  Adam Day 51   
  • Isolation Songs  — Karla Kelsey 52
  • A Summer Day Dislogic —   Brandon Rushton 54
  • FROM MOTION STUDIES (VOL. I, FOUR PARTS) — Brandon Rushton 56
  • Suddenly —   Peter Gizzi 58

 



Table of  Contents of California Quarterly
Vol. 49, No. 2, Summer 2023
California Quarterly, vol. 49, No. 2, Summer 2023, Edited by Maja Trochimczyk
Cover Image: Digital Photo "Soap Bubbles in Encinitas" by Chris Hannemann

 
TABLE OF CONTENTS

California Quarterly, Vol. 49, Number 2, Spring 2023


  • The Smallest is the Bridge  ―  Charlene Langfur   ―  7
  • When the Desert Blooms   ―  Sarah Baker   ―  8
  • Totem   ―  Carlo DiOrio   ―  9
  • Wild Cherry   ―  Erin Thomas   ―  10
  • My Daughter is Pregnant   ―  Daniel Thomas   ―  11
  • A Thousand and One   ―  Sarah Baker  ―   12
  • Soft Blankets Make the Stars Shine Brighter   ―  Daniel Wroten  ―   12
  • Dimensions   ―  Mark Belair  ―   13
  • maybe I’m only   ―  Margaret Saine   ―  13
  • My Relationship to the Universe   ―  David Woodward   ―  14
  • Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe   ―  Jim Tilley  ―   15
  • Space   ―  Bart Edelman   ―  16
  • Scrimmage   ―  Jane Stuart   ―  17
  • Canyon Creek Bioswalk, Ascott Hills   ―  Gregory Cecil   ―  17
  • Afflatus  ―   Livingston Rossmoor  ―   18
  • You Are on the River, Drifting   ―  M. C. Rush   ―  19
  • She Is Just Saying, Not That I Asked  ―   Jeanne Holdridge   ―  20
  • Morning Songs   ―  Gary Metheny   ―  21
  • Obeyance, Obeisance   ―  Carlo DiOrio   ―  21
  • When I’m Eighty-Four   ―  Wyatt Underhill   ―  22
  • At His Father’s Bedside   ―  Daniel Thomas   ―  23
  • all of them, fallen  ―   ayaz daryl nielsen   ―  23
  • Visiting Hours   ―  Michael Meyerhofer   ―  24
  • Saying Goodbye   ―  Jane Stuart  ―   25
  • Measures of Empathy, of Grief   ―  Diane DeCillis   ―  25
  • King for a Day   ―  Andy Roberts  ―   26
  • The Bantam Hours 41 ―  Jeff Graham  ―  26
  • The Song   ―  Bart Edelman   ―  27
  • To Ludwig, Oh Friend, Not These Sounds   ―  Marc Janssen   ―  28
  • Ode to an Unnamed Greek Slave   ―  Michael Meyerhofer  ―   29
  • One Sunny Afternoon   ―  Jeanne Holdridge   ―  31
  • Whale Watching   ―  E. Martin Pedersen  ―   32
  • Tomorrow I Will Be Another I   ―  Alex Przybyla   ―  33
  • The Beach Goes On  ―   Jim Stewart   ―  33
  • Basterà l’Oceano   ― Antonio Blunda   ―  34
  • Will the Ocean Be Enough   ―  Margaret Saine, tr.   ―  35
  • Lines Composed Above Cabrillo  Beach   ―   Giovanni Boskovich  ―   36
  • The Silence of the Common  Nighthawk   ―   John Schneider   ―  37
  • Moonlight   ―   Kevin Thornburgh   ―  38
  • A New Moon   ―   Erin Garstka   ―  38
  • This Quarter Moon   ―   Erin Garstka   ―  39
  • A Full Moon   ―   Claire J. Baker   ―  40
  • Memory Moon   ―   Brian James Stone  ―   41
  • Aynar Means Moonlight   ―   Diane DeCillis  ―   42
  • I Rediscover My Childhood  Microscope   ―   Henry Stimpson   ―  43
  • Daily Bread of Words   ―   Margaret Saine  ―   43
  • Silence Caught in Time   ―   Joseph Galasso  ―   44
  • After 2   ―  M. C. Rush   ―  45
  • I Was Awakened at Midnight   ―  Jiang Pu   ―  46
  • Alchemy for Want of a Kiss  ―   Cordelia Hanemann   ―  46
  • Absence   ―  Hedy Habra   ―  48
  • What Else Is There   ―  Jeanne Holdridge   ―  49
  • A Te Poggiata   ―  Rita Stanzione   ―  50
  • Begonia   ―  Paul Willis   ―  50
  • Leaning Against You  ―   Margaret Saine, tr.   ―  51
  • the world ends   ―  ayaz daryl nielsen   ―  51
  • I Fell in Love with Luo Jin   ―  Maja Trochimczyk   ―  52
  • When I Was in Istanbul   ―  Linda Hughes  ―   53
  • An Impossible Canvas   ―  John Schneider   ―  54
  • Confession   ―  Kevin Thornburgh   ―  55
  • Avoid Dance   ―  Marc Janssen   ―  56
  • Mad Apples   ―  Kit Kennedy   ―  57
  • Tremulous   ―  Paul Willis   ―  57
  • Just Thinking   ―   Leslie Hendrickson- Baral   ―  58
  • Less Prepared   ―  Lee Clark Zumpe   ―  58
  • A Place for the Luminous  ―   Charlene Langfur   ―  59


Cover Art: Soap Bubbles in Encinitas, color photo by Chris Hannemann




Table of Contents of California Quarterly 
Vol. 49, No. 1, Spring 2023
California Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Spring 2023)
Edited by Konrad Tademar Wilk
Cover Image: Untitled by Zdzislaw Beksinski, Historical Museum of Sanok, Poland

                                                                                                                          

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Start Somewhere  ~ Cathy Porter   7
  • Prophecy ~ Jane Stuart 7
  • Start Somewhere  ~  Cathy Porter   7
  • Prophecy   ~  Jane Stuart 7
  • Eternal Change  ~  Elżbieta Czajkowska 8
  • Pearling ~   Diane Lee Moomey           9
  • Message  ~  Julia Cadwallader Staub    9
  • Berlin on Foot   ~  Günther Bedson 10
  • Dream-walking a Year Later in the  Gardens of Charlottenburg Castle  ~ Günther Bedson 11
  • Pilgrimage  ~  Diane Lee Moomey  12 
  • The Babies Are in Bloom Again ~   Michael Fraley 13
  • Autumn Leaves in Spring  ~  Lucia Kiersch Haase 14
  • Roadside Cross   ~  Oriana Ivy 15
  • Elk and Driftwood ~      Pamela Biery  16
  • Japan  ~  Kevin Thornburg 18
  • Under the Mulberry Bush  ~   Konrad Tademar Wilk  19
  • Enchantment  ~  Walker Abel     20
  • Divine Sculpture  ~  Emory Jones      21
  • Kisses from You  ~ Antoni B. Frinkley          22
  • Identity  ~    Julia Cadwallader Staub 22
  • Hadrosaur Soloists  ~    Ruth Berman 23
  • It Beckoned Me   ~  Ravi Sonakia 23
  • Night Sounds  ~   Michael Fraley 24
  • Passion  ~    Livingston Rossmoor 25
  • The Cyclops ~    Diana DeCillis 26
  • The Enlightenment of Touch   ~   Walker Abel 27
  • The Hard-skinned Fruit ~  Jay A. Adler  28
  • Painted Desert  ~  Emory Jones                 29
  • Habitat ~   Quito Regalo 30
  • Bluey  ~  Jenny McBride 30
  • Tranquility Base  ~  Don Palmer 31
  • All You Left Me  ~   Günther Bedson  32
  • It’s All Gone Now ~   Ravi Sonakia 33
  • Aunt Ruth’s Lace Gloves  ~   Kit Kennedy 34
  • Transmutation  ~   Leonard Moon 35
  • My Imperceptible Basket and the  Apathy of Moral Dignity  ~ Adam Torkelson    36
  • Storm Troopers  ~ Quito Regalo  37
  • Cow in Trees  ~  John Rowe 38
  • I Don’t Like Pretty  ~  Jenny McBride 38
  • Asimov and the Wonders  ~ Ruth Berman 39
  • How to Pray ~  Claire J. Baker 40
  • Nepenthe, O Nepenthe  ~  Leonard Moon 40
  • Buzzed   ~   John Rowe 41
  • Princess on Parade  ~   E. Martin Pedersen 42
  • In Answer to Logan’s Question  What’s  Thunder   ~   Adam Torkelson 43
  • The Plea   ~    Christine Candland            44
  • At the Jeweler’s  ~  David Romanda 45
  • Tender   ~  Konrad Tademar Wilk     46
  • “Curves Are So Emotional”  ~ Diane DeCillis 47
  • Faith    ~    Greg McBrady 48
  • The Unseen  ~  Ken Hada 49
  • Would That It Could  ~   Elżbieta Czajkowska 50
  • Barcelona  ~  Oriana Ivy  51
  • The Crumpled Yellow Paper  ~   Johnny L. Wooten 52
  • Lev and Ora’s Patterns     ~   Jake Marmer        53
  • Avithos Beach    ~    Nicholas Skaldetvind 54
  • In the Kaleidoscope of Forgotten Shapes   ~  Diane DeCillis 55
  • Why Wonder?    ~    Heather Kenealy 56
  • The Polish Spirit   ~ Oriana Ivy  58



Table of Contents of California Quarterly
Vol. 48, No. 4, Winter 2022

California Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 4, Winter 2022
Guest Editor - Deborah P Kolodji. Cover art by Tiffany Shaw-Diaz,  
You Push and You Pull, watercolor on paper (2020).   


 
TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • A Path I Can’t Refuse  — William Scott Galasso   7
  • Teton sunset  Cynthia Anderson    7
  • Fire Season — Milton Bates  8
  • Asleep on the Couch — Cary Bogart Ziter 9
  • Morning — Michaela Chairez 9
  • Dusk, Hudson Valley Palisades — Robert Dorsett 10
  • Arch   Paul Willis  10
  • Stargazer Lily — Sharon M. Williams 11
  • drops of morning dew     Nancy Marie Fernandez 11
  • Rain Slippers — Thomas Belton 12
  • Cassandra as Climate Scientist  — Jeannine Hall Gailey      13
  • [Sombra] — Carla Pravisani 14
  • [Shadow]  —  Margaret Saine, tr.    14
  • salt and pepper — Cynthia Anderson  14
  • The Fortuneteller’s Bad Day   George J. Searles 15
  • Void  — Michael Potter 15
  • Mockingbird — Jeffrey Kingman 16
  • Questions for a Lodgepole Pine     Paul Willis    17
  • An Evening Flock — Matthew J. Spireng 17
  • Blood Moon — Basil Rouskas 18
  • The Photo  — Margaret Brinton 19
  • New Moon’s Old Tale — Raphael Block 20
  • A Stranger —  Ruth Holzer 21
  • Sheltering on the Coast — Rosemary Ybarra 22
  • The Big Bang — Georgia San Li   23
  • A Fading Band — Claire Scott 24
  • Rain Regiment  Dr. Emory D. Jones 25
  • what’s left of the night…     Gregory Longenecker    25
  • Morning at Moore’s Lake, Again — Kimberly Nunes 26
  • Droplet — Michael Kleis 27
  • [Receta] — Carla Pravisani 28
  • [Prescription]  Margaret Saine, tr.    28
  • golden years  — Lee Hudspeth 28
  • Reconciled — Cynthia Anderson              29
  • Morning — Nancy Marie Fernandez 29
  • Phoenix Hairpins —  Margaret Chula 30
  • Mona Lisa in Hell — Andrew Miller 31
  • passing time —  Gregory Longenecker 31
  • Goodnight —  Greg Bell                 32
  • Orange County Roots — Sabrina Skye 34
  • Ode to an Old Nature Pilgrim — C.L. Hoang  35
  • October winds  — Gregory Longenecker 35
  • Spider — Carla Schwartz 36
  • When I begin — Patricia J. Machmiller 37
  • my mind emerging — Margaret Saine 37
  • She Learns to Become Fire  Jeannine Hall Gailey       38
  • oak leaves  William Scott Galasso 38
  • With Determination — A.J. Hoffman 15
  • Corsage, Eight Grade Dance, 1960 — Matthew J. Spireng 39
  • The Queen Mary — Deborah P Kolodji & Mariko Kitakubo 40
  • Waiting for the Light — Beverland, Terry, etc.  41
  • Cranberry Fields Forever — Jim Tilley 42
  • The Gargoyle, Time  S.T. Brant  43
  • You Are Eating Oatmeal  Betsy Martin 44
  • In the Snow — David Sapp 45
  • Karaoke — Jackie Chou & Genie Nakano 46
  • March  Henry Stimpson    47
  • Flies Circling Light Bulbs — Cary Bogart Ziter            48
  • Mothlight  Lynn Axelrod 49
  • The Last Small Town — Robert H. Guard    50
  • Jazz Hat  Bj Cotton-Jeffords 51
  • The House on Green Street  — Michaela Chairez 52
  • 2022 Annual Contest Winners  53
  • Dolores Street  Jeanne Wagner 56
  • After —  Susan Wolbarst    56
  • Ariadne Auf Naxos — Claire Scott 58




Table of Contents of California Quarterly
Vol. 48, No. 3, Autumn 2022
Cover Art: Ambika Talwar, Gateway for Ascending Lilies
Acrylic on canvas. 24x24 inches. (c) May 1996.
California Quarterly vo.. 48 no. 3, editoed by Bory Thach
  • Evanescence                 Greg Stidham           7
  • The Color Empty                     Bella Hanlon                      7
  • Princess                         Christine Candland                     
  • Her Grace                   Gloria Keeley                  9
  • Southwest at Dusk         Laura Johanna Braverman  10
  • Sun-dipped Skin                 Bella Hanlon          11
  • Bubble Gum                 Tara Cummins                  11
  • Candle Watcher                 Alessio Zanelli                  12
  • Bloodline                 Jane-Rebecca Cannarrella   13
  • In The Belly of a Canoe          Cindy Rinne          14
  • Tule Elk Preserve in March     Vivian Underhill                      15
  • Secrets of the Trackless Field      Laura Johanna Braverman   16
  • Oncoming Traffic                  Francesca Astiazaran           17                                           
  • Dirge for Solo Voice          Sharon Lopez Mooney           18
  • Hay Rolls                           Richard Dinges, Jr.    19
  • Late Night Visitor                  Greg Stidham                20
  • Life’s Menu                              Danny Barbare                   21
  • Lament on a Baked Fish         Mike Maggio                           22
  • Gratitude List #18                   Ace Bogges                        23
  • A Chime Sitting on the Feeder   Sharon Lopez Mooney       24
  • Rooftop Blues          Ann Olive          25
  • Wavespell                                Alessio Zanelli                         25
  • Waves of Blue                 Katia Aoun Hage           26
  • Long Play Record                 Dan Fitzgerald          27
  • Pink Moon, Red Light            Ann Olive          28
  • Night at the Beach House       Gloria Keeley                  29
  • Seven Ways of Looking at a Cardinal in Late March    Henry Stimpson   30
  • Star-crossed                          Wendy Blackwell          31
  • A Story of the Sea          Bhibu Padhi                     32
  • August Heat                  Richard Dinges, Jr.   33
  • Teetotaler                          Becky Nicole James   34
  • I Wonder What Heaven Looks Like For You  Angelica Medlin        35
  • Night Sky at Groveland           Michael McGuire                 36
  • Endless Spring                  Gary Metheny                   37
  • Manzanita                  Cindy Bousquet Harris          38
  • Tears of St. Lawrence          KL Straight                   39
  • Welcome                               Allison Collins           40
  • Isn’t She Lovely                  Francesca Astiazaran   42
  • Belonging to the Sky  Russell Rowland          43
  • Across a Lost Horizon             Jane Stuart                               44         
  • The Glistening Edge of What Remains     Ken Holland   45
  • Ara’s Silver                          Ambika Talwar           46
  • Secret Pain                           MariaJane Gitchell                   47
  • That’s, Interesting: Becoming A Castaway  David Bethel    48
  • In Loving Memory                 Wendy Blackwell          49
  • Roadside Roads Jeff Graham 50         
  • An Eagle at Starved Rock  Lucia Haase                   51
  • Idyll                           Jessie Lim                   52
  • Meeting Spot                Deborah P. Kolodji                 53
  • Seasons              Mary Elliott                54
  • Homeland Awaits            Conner Frederick          55
  • Butterflies in the Killing Fields     Sally Vogl                         56
  • The Calling           Ella Czajkowska           57         
  • Jar of Reasons              Cindy Bousquet Harris           58 
  • Cribbage for Two           Sally Vogl                   59
  • Afterlife                                    Bory Thach                             60




Table of Contents of California Quarterly
Vol. 48, No. 2, Summer 2022


California Quarterly vol. 48, no. 2, Summer 2022, guest ed. Margaret Saine

Cover Art: Michael Kostiuk, Dancing with the Poetry Queen,

pencil on paper, 19.50 x 15.69 cm. May 2019              

  • Acrópolis  —   Khedija Gadhoum      7
  • Acropolis Tr. Margaret Saine               
  • Runner’s Itch Johnny L. Wooten          9
  • Chocolate Hearts —     David John Tyrer   9
  • Mixed Blessing Marty Walsh 10
  • Se Rita Stanzione                         11
  • If Tr. Margaret Saine                         12
  • The Sadness    Graham Buchan 13
  • Rebirth Michael Keshigian                 14
  • Re:Set Text d.p. houston         15
  • Oranges For Wallace Stevens   — Millicent Borges Accardi 16
  • Lockdown Sonnet #4   —  Santiago Villafania 17
  • G. Floyd    —    Ismael Diadié Haïdara         18                                           
  • G. Floyd   — Tr. Margaret Saine                 19
  • On the Brink   —   William Scott Galasso  21
  • Myth of Origin    —   Toti O’Brien 22
  • Leaves Tumble Across Parking Lot  —    David E. Howerton  23
  • Upadek Planety Anna Maria Mickiewicz 24
  • The Downfall of Planets   —    Tr. Anna Maria Mickiewicz 25
  • Weiche ° Anomalie   —    Axel Görlach  26
  • Soft  ° Anomaly —   Tr. Margaret Saine 27
  • Door to Myself Timothy Fab-Eme 28
  • Close Enough  — Mike Dillon         29
  • With…    —    J. C. Foritano                 30
  • Rier Child   — Marvin Sarkar Bynoe         31
  • Exit  David Pratt                  32
  • What Muse Wants —     Doreen Beyer 33
  • Deciding Man   —  Sean MicKael Wilson   34
  • The Last Now   —     Donall Dempsey                 35
  • The Land I Long For     — Michael Fraley  36
  • Five Haiku Billy Antonio                 37
  • Mercury in Wood —       S. D. Dillon                 38
  • Why the Warmth —      Chris Falcon                 39
  • Dandelions Sarah Baker                 40
  • Once We Were God    — Michael Meyerhofer 41
  • Algorithms: What Do They Know? Alun  Rees 42
  • Pirates Bory Thach                                         43    
  • Elegy for Marie P. Marie Lecrivain         44
  • Shades of Home Anna Dunlap         45
  • On Solitude Lynn Hoggard         46
  • I Zoomed Into... — Lynn Axelrod         47
  • Las Palabras Tienen Frío —  Eliécer Almaguer 48
  • The Words Are Cold Tr. Margaret Saine 48
  • Lonely Sea and Stars Jane Stuart 49
  • Time Immortal Maja Trochimczyk         50
  • Collected Wounds Savita Singh ``         51
  •  After I Tell My Father Joanne Holdridge 52
  • [To Her Father] Terry Olivi ` 53
  • [To Her Father]     —   Tr. Margaret Saine      54
  • Hope Is. a Good Thing Sean MicKael Wilson 55
  • Querencia Alfredo Pérez Alencart 56
  • Safe Place  tr. Margaret Saine         57
  • Humilitas   —   Manuel Francisco Reina 58
  • Humilitas    Tr. Margaret Saine         59          




Table of Contents of California Quarterly
Vol. 48, No. 1, Spring 2022

Edited by Maja Trochimczyk. Cover image: "Surrender" by Diane Lee Moomey, 2014

  • Reception — Charles Grosel  7
  • The Mime — Jane Stuart 7
  • Stationary Hobo — Dana Stamps II 8
  • anchoring night sky — Jeffrey L. Taylor 8
  • Christmas Tree Aftermath  — Richard Schiffman 9
  • Round and Round  — Lynn White 10
  • Early — Holly Day   11
  • Letter to Taylor Swift — A. Dearborn Goldsmith 12
  • anachronistic — Scott Moss 12
  • Mountain March — Bertha Rogers 13
  • On the Bridge Across the Stream —  Harris Coverley              13
  • Tahquitz Peak Lookout 1999 —  Terry Wilhelm 14
  • Ghost Towns Out West Stephen Benz  16
  • Ruins — Keith Gorman 17
  • [alla mia madre morta:]  — Terry Olivi 18
  • [To My Dead Mother:] —  Margaret Saine, tr. 19
  • Will tomorrow be another day? — Charlie Brice 20
  • Shavasana — Ida Marie Beck 21
  • loud waterfall rush Connie Tettenborn  21
  • Thirty White Horses — Angie Nam 22
  • Wyvern —  Holly Day 23
  • the nearness —   Gregory Cecil 23
  • Mixed Media: Grief — Lynn Domina 24
  • Lessons of the Pomegranate — Tammy C. Greenwood 25
  • Sea Shanties Angelika Quirk 26
  • Bullfrog Pond —   Pamela Stone Singer 27
  • King Tide — Ron Renspie 28
  • Waterfall Symphony  — Dana Stamps II 29
  • The Sea Only Gives —  Jeff Graham 30
  • Crossing the Causeway  — Julia Park Tracey 31
  • Unsolid State Connie Tettenborn  31
  • Daphne —    Brittany Nohra 32
  • Anemophilous — Holly Day 33
  • Looking Up at the Sky — John McKernan     33
  • Unbridled — Tammy C. Greenwood 34
  • We All Lie — Annie Schumacher 34
  • Purpose  — Cathy Porter 35
  • Centering — Charlene Langfur  36
  • Curriculum Vitae — Margaret Saine 37
  • Puzzle   —  Claire Scott 38
  • Loneliness — Edward Curtis 38
  • Rectius Vives, Licini, Neque Altum    — Andrew Miller 39
  • Green Grass — Alice Pero 40
  • From Minium Chronicles   — Maja Trochimczyk 41
  • [Ciò che fugge]   — Paolo Staglianò 42
  • [What Is Fleeting] — Margaret Saine, tr. 43
  • Simple Things — Charlene Langfur 44
  • Santa Cruz — Annie Schumacher 45
  • Anna Livia — Jonathan Cannon 46
  • When Two is Greater than Home — Ida Marie Beck 47
  • Still Blue — Loise Moisess 48
  • Unfurling Seasons — Hedy Habra 49
  • Immigrant — Angie Nam 50
  • Varanasi —   Laine Derr 50
  • My Prayers — Carlo diOrio 51
  • Beyond Silence  — Jeffrey L. Taylor  51
  • Assopirmi ora — Rita Stanzione 52
  • getting drowsy now —   Margaret Saine, tr. 52
  • The Phoenix Oliver Egger  53
  • Generational Waves — Sean McGee Brown 54
  • Practical Advice for a Frazzled Passer-by — Maja Trochimczyk 56
  • Existence by Origin by Existence   —  Jeff Graham 57
  • Light  —   Frederick Livingston  58
  • Seeker — Beverly M. Collins 59
  • Contributors in Alphabetical Order 60
  • CSPS Contest Opportunities 61
  • CSPS Newsbriefs 2022, No. 1 62
Publishing Opportunities with CSPS 65
2022 CSPS Donors, Patrons, and Membership 66
CSPS Membership Form 68




Table of Contents of California Quarterly, 
Vol. 47, No. 4, Winter 2021

California Quarterly Vol. 47, No. 4, Winter 2021

Edited by William Scott Galasso

Cover Art: Cloudless Sky by Vera Campion, Collage of acrylic hand-painted paper, 11" x 8.5", 2020. From Alice Pero and Vera Campion, Beyond Birds and Answers (Elyssar Press, 2021).

  • The Percolation Period  — Thomas Sanford Weir — 7
  • Memory on a Dream of the Future — Dorothy Howe Brooks — 8
  • When We Gather — Marilyn Robertson — 9
  • in creek shallows — William Scott Galasso — 9
  • An Impulse to Believe — Joan E. Bauer — 10
  • Left with the Sky — Kevin Thornburgh — 11
  • seven-year itch — Gregory Longenecker — 11
  • Birth of Venus — Doreen Beyer — 12
  • a white heron’s plume — Richard Matta — 13
  • Union Claire Watson — 13
  • train trestles… — Richard Matta — 13
  • So Little Time — Cordelia Hanemann — 14
  • Painting Moreno Valley — Joel Ferdon — 15
  • midsummer — Gregory Longenecker — 15
  • Desert Junk — Richard Nester — 16
  • Ironic Ashes — Claire J. Baker — 17
  • Breakthrough — Claire J. Baker — 18
  • Cartography of a Symphony — Ellyn Maybe —18
  • Air — Mark Newman — 19
  • The Size of It — Mark Newman — 20
  • ‘Round Midnight — Joanne Sharp — 20
  • first notes — Renée Owen — 20
  • sheltering in place — Renée Owen — 20
  • The Snail Digger — Linda Kunhardt — 21
  • Transformations — Kath Abela Wilson — 22
  • Orca School — Jacqueline Schaalje 23
  • Hagabat, you bring — Lawdenmarc Decamora — 24
  • Pagoda of Pots — Paul Willis — 24
  • garden opening — Kath Abela Wilson — 24
  • Body Count — Dorothy Howe Brooks —25
  • Intention — Michael Sprake — 26
  • Here There Be Dragons — Robbie Nester — 27
  • Magic Time — Bibhu Padhi — 28
  • Valve Nutrients — Martha Webster — 29
  • Leave No Trace — Russell Rowland — 30
  • Standoff — Diane Lee Moomey — 31
  • indigo tinctorial — Renée Owen — 31
  • At a Certain Age It Seems …— Jane Hilary —32
  • Leavings — John Zedolik — 33
  • Burden — Marc Fisher — 34
  • Stitches — Michael Meyerhoffer — 35
  • Selcouth — Charles Wilkinson — 36
  • lifestyles of loneliness  — ayaz daryl nielsen — 36
  • I Am Rooted in the Wind — Lonna Blodgett — 37
  • Taking Flight — Gary Metheny — 38
  • sometimes — Gregory Longenecker — 38
  • Men at Work — Tasha Cotter — 39
  • the nail he was — William Scott Galasso — 39
  • New Dad — Danielle Lemay — 40
  • first marriage — Gregory Longenecker — 40
  • Night Without Walls  — Margaret Saine —  41
  • String Theory — Gloria Keeley — 42
  • A Late September Night… — Gabriella Miotto — 43
  • True Light — Dennis Ross — 44
  • The Well — Matthew J. Spireng — 45
  • my smile — Renée Owen — 45
  • Tatterdamelion — David Prather — 46
  • Hollow Bones Haiku for You — Joanell Serra — 47
  • Moving the Stars — Kathleen Gunton — 48
  • Pilgrimage — Bibhu Padhi — 49
  • October Trace  —William Scott Galasso — 49
  • Geochemistry — Michael Sprake 50
  • Snowmelt — Marianne Karplus 51
  • Return — Marc Fisher 52
  • 35th Annual Contest Winners, Comments — 53
  • Three Men in a Boat — Robert Spich — 56
  • Snow (a tanka) — Bruce Gallie —57
  • Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Three Men in … David Anderson — 57
  • Contributors in Alphabetical Order — 58
  • CSPS Contest Opportunities — 59
  • CSPS Newsbriefs 2021, No. 4 — 60
  • Publishing Opportunities with CSPS — 64
  • 2021 CSPS Donors, Patrons, and Membership — 65
  • CSPS Membership Form — 67




Table of Contents of the California Quarterly, 
Vol. 47, No. 3, Autumn 2021

California Quarterly, Vol. 47 No. 3, Autumn 2021

Edited by Konrad Tademar Wilk

Cover image:  Arctic IV, oil on Board 5x5, 2017 by Danielle Eubanks


  • Slavonia in my Mother’s Heart           Sonia Sabanac                   7
  • Chicago Sonnet #19                                 D.A. Hosek                       8
  • The Game of Tag                                       Jason Visconti                   8
  • To Name is to Cause to Exist                Estelle Bajou                     9
  • Summer Vacations                                  Jason Visconti                   9
  • Mary Sidney Herbert Pleads with  the Eglantine Growing in Her Brother's Garden        Deborah. H. Doolittle      10
  • She Breathes Only Trees                       Jean Varda                      10
  • Vows                                                                Haleigh Yaspan               12
  • Customer Service                                   Andy Roberts                  12
  • Talking to My Younger Self                Ann Christine Tabaka    13
  • Signs                                                           Tamika Dooley                14
  • Becoming                                                  Tamika Dooley               14
  • Yancy Carter, In Memoriam             Konrad Tademar Wilk     15
  • Dream Horses                                         Alun Rees                       16
  • Wings                                                         Claire Scott                     17
  • Metamorphosis                                     Angelika Quirk               18
  • Why                                                           Alessio Zanelli                19
  • Message                                                   Bertha Rogers                 20
  • Violets                                                      D. F. Walker                   21
  • Factory Boss                                          Charlie Brice                   22
  • Digestion Comes Slowly                   Erika Goveia                   23
  • Icarus after the Crash                       Patrinos Konstantinos       24
  • Dancing Ellipses                                 Patrinos Konstantinos      25
  • Mountains                                            Jeffrey L. Taylor             26
  • Variations on an Ode                        Amy Moore                    26
  • Amargosa Delta                                  Amy Moore                    27
  • El Zonte                                                  Steve Lang                      28
  • On a Fine May Morning                   Steve Lang                      29
  • King Tide                                              Julia Park Tracey             30
  • Perfect Day (A Minute)                   Emory Jones                   30
  • 2 a.m. Evacuation                             Cooper Young                 31
  • Evacuating with Smoked Chickens   Carol Park                       32
  • Tiny Altars                                          Marie Marchand              33
  • Allegro on Broken Piano               Taeyeon Han                   34
  • Reality                                                  Jane Stuart                      35
  • Autumn Night                                    Edward Garvey               36
  • Homecoming                                     Mishra Debasish              36
  • At a Pullout Along Grizzly Peaks      Cooper Young                 38
  • Super Mario                                       Mishra Debasish              39
  • Summertime Dinner                      Jes Burke                        40
  • Quantum Birds                                 Ida Marie Beck                41
  • To Drown in Asphodel Meadows      Matthew Mayes               42
  • I Am Not the Center of My Own Universe       Mary Ellen Talley            43
  • Desiccation                                        Richard Dinges, Jr.          44
  • I’m Sorry, Mr. Webster…             Judy Barratt                    44
  • Homer’s Girl                                     Christine Candland          46
  • Ghazal for the Quarantined Woman   Mary Ellen Talley            48
  • First Memory                                    Jerry Smith                     49
  • You Can’t Tell a Venomous Snake…   Cameron Gibson             50
  • Fred and Ginger Nowadays         Craig Kurtz                     51
  • Sonnet Pour Edith Piaf                 Robert Fleming               52
  • Sonnet for Edith Piaf                     Robert Fleming, tr.          52
  • First You Must Be Aware What Is Coming  Patrick Meeds      53
  • A Perfidious Lover                          Nidhi Agrawal                54
  • Shiv Tattva                                         Nidhi Agrawal                 54
  • Learning to See                                Lynn Domina                  55
  • Simchat Torah                                  Maureen Sherbondy         56
  • Bargaining with the Stars              Maureen Sherbondy         56
  • His Head: Three Painting and One Mosaic         Lynn Domina      57
  • Memory of 2001                               Konrad Tademar Wilk     58
  • Ellipsis                                                 Joel Schueler                   58
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COVER ART

© Danielle Eubank. Danielle Eubank, Arctic IV , Oil on board, 5x5 inches, 2017. Arctic IV is part of Eubank’s One Artist Five Oceans project. Danielle Eubank has painted all the oceans on the planet to help raise awareness about the state of our oceans and climate change. www.danielleeubankart.com.




Table of Contents of California Quarterly
Vol. 47, No. 2, Summer 2021
California Quarterly 47 no. 2, Summer 2021
Edited by Maja Trochimczyk 
Cover Art: Butterfly by Susan Dobay, oil on canvas

TABLE OF CONTENTS

California Quarterly, Volume 47, Number 2

  • Mother Wearing Glasses and a Scarf  - Millicent Borges Accardi 7
  • Frosted  -  Kelley Jean White 8
  • Jar of Flowers  -  Daniel E. Blackston 9
  • Supercalifraglistic  Rachel Squires Bloom    10
  • Childhood Predictions of Future  Success     -  Jackie Chou 11
  • Lure -  Kristel Rietesel-Low    12
  • Chandra’s Garden -  Gary Metheny  13
  • Where the Roly-Polies Go  When It Rains  - Kristel Rietesel-Low   14
  • House of Music  -     Eric Blanchard 15
  • whoosh… -     Deborah P Kolodji 15
  • The Shipping Forecast    - Harris Coverley 16
  • Will   -    Chris Durand    17
  • Like the Waves   - Purna Sujash  18
  • Imposing its Rust on Everything   -   Millicent B. Accardi  19
  • 送友人  - Li Bai  20
  • Seeing Off a Friend    - Yun Wang, transl. 20
  • Hometown  - Anna Maria Mickiewicz  21
  • Speed of Pain  -     Jeffrey L. Taylor 22
  • inscriptions    -     Jamie Duncan 23
  • mother’s recipe  - Susan Rogers 23
  • Solitudine    - Paolo Staglianò 24
  • family album    -   William Scott Galasso  24
  • Solitude   -    Margaret Saine, transl.   25
  • wanted everything   -     ayaz daryl nielsen 25
  • Soliloquy    -     Gary Davis  26
  • Breaker  -     Harris Coverley 27
  • Providence  -     Diana Donovan 28
  • Plein Air, Oxford   -    Teresa Bullock  29
  • somewhere still   -     Susan Rogers 29
  • The Landscape of Love -   Nelson Joshua AnandhaRaj 30
  • For the Lemon Tree Alone   - Madeleine S. Butcher 31
  • a scent of roses    - Susan Rogers 31
  • Tree Songs    -  Dana Stamps II 32
  • The Changeling  - Maureen Ellen O’Leary 33
  • Mason Bees   - Maja Trochimczyk 34
  • Figures  -    Kath Abela Wilson 35
  • Low Tide  -    Marilyn Robertson 36
  • Survival Skills    - Sarah Platenius 36
  • ways   -    Jamie Duncan 37
  • At Temple Preparing to Pray    - Meghan Adler 38
  • The Time Is Now  -    Dirk James 39
  • Ascension    -     Mary Elliott 40
  • abruptly  -    Gregory Cecil 40
  • Mouth of the River Spitting out  the Sea  -  Eli Coyle     41
  • Breakthrough  -   Beth Pollak 42
  • Gypsy Wind -   William Scott Galasso  43
  • This Dance   -    Cathy Porter 44
  • Sunset  -   Gary Davis 45
  • spring sunset  -    Gregory Cecil 45
  • Moonlight   - Livingston Rosmoor 46
  • Mother’s Way    -    Kath Abela Wilson 46
  • Nocturne 23    -    Jeff Graham 47
  • The Runaway Moon  -  Dirk James 48
  • Loveland   -    Sam Barbee 49
  • Aristophanes    -  Gary Davis 50
  • Susan is Dancing on the Moon    -    Kathi Stafford  51
  • Grace Notes  -    William Scott Galasso 52
  • A Song-Distance Away    -    Nelson Joshua AnandhaRaj 53
  • Song Offering, Because Love   -    Ambika Talwar 54
  • Rain     -     MaryJo West 55
  • To a Mother -     Susan Rogers 56
  • The Light   - Dennis Ross 57
  • Flight of Longing -   Ambika Talwar 58
  • summer breeze   - Deborah P Kolodji 59
  • The Intransigence of Stars    -   David Starkey 60
  • patio chimes -   Deborah P Kolodji 60



California Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 1 
(Spring 2021) Edited by Bory Thach.
Cover Art: Harmony (ink & watercolor on paper, 11 x 15 in.) 
by Sylvia Van Nooten, Montrose, Colorado


  • Blue Fantasia - Ruth Holzer  7
  • Mondegreen - Lavina Blossom 8
  • Another Play Day  - Richard Matta  9
  • Nature’s Cure - Nancy Folley  10
  • White Owl  - Cindy Bousquet Harris  11
  • It is Possible to Maintain Happiness - Charlene Langfur 12
  • Golden - Anna Jasinska   13
  • Hummingbirds and Eagles - Marcia Arrieta  13
  • The Tree Massacre  - Anne-Marie Brumm 14
  • these seismic tremors  - ayaz daryl nielsen  15
  • Grave Sight  - Carlo DiOrio  16
  • To Plant a Tree  - Miriam Aroner 17
  • Waves and Eddies  - Karen Carter  18
  • A Modest Poetics - Margaret Saine 19
  • Half-Life  - Edward Fisher  20
  • Responding to the Internet - Ken Letko 21
  • Asian Eyes - Wendy Blackwell  22
  • Cedar Waxwings - Claire Scott 23
  • Ottawa Boy - Craig Cotter  24
  • The Completeness - Alice Pero 26
  • Meandering - Charlene Langfur  27
  • North - Diana Donovan 28
  • Mortal Absence - Beverly Burch  29
  • Arrivals and Departures  - Jean McDonough 30
  • Cobbled Stones - Amy Moore  32
  • Big Sur Coastline - Joseph Bottone 33
  • Okunoin Cemetery - Doreen Beyer 34
  • Regrets  - Joan Gerstein 35
  • Ways to Pray - Marilyn Robertson  36
  • Island - Jena Sangram 37
  • Autobiography - Amy Nocton  38
  • Eulogy for Love - Jean McDonough 39
  • Asleep - Jenavieve Dance 40
  • Culpable Poet - Daniel Potter  41
  • Sheer Optimism - Lavina Blossom 42
  • Ovation  - Cindy Bousquet Harris 43
  • baby finch parents  Barbara Huntington 43
  • The Monk by the Sea (1809) - Anne-Marie Brumm 44
  • Lotus Bearer - David Bethel 45
  • Soul of the Beloved - Sharon Lopez Mooney 46
  • Bleeding into Light - R.S. Mengert 47
  • On a Cold Winter’s Night  - Wendy Blackwell 48
  • Constellation - Sarah Platenius 49
  • I Want to Write an Irish Poem - Meghan Adler 50
  • View Down the Street - Cindy Rinne 52
  • Muse - Sue Leigh 53
  • Waves. Sandstorms - Marcia Arrieta 53
  • Or Would It Have Made a Difference, Had I Known? - Hedy Habra  54
  • My Inner Critic - Takwa Sharif 55
  • The First Snow - Steve Pelcman 56
  • we wait for the rain  - Barbara Huntington 56
  • Year’s End - David Stephenson 57
  • trying to get home - Barbara Huntington 57
  • Respite River - David Bethel  58
  • At Dawn - Bory Thach 59




TABLE OF CONTENTS OF 
THE CALIFORNIA QUARTERLY IN 2020

California Quarterly 46, No. 4, 

Winter 2020, edited by Maja Trochimczyk

 Cover Art: Constant Return II (1965, 39x39) by Julian Stanczak (1928-2017). 

Acrylic on Canvas. Stanczak Foundation, Cleveland.

Editor's Preface and Biographical Note

President's Newsbriefs 46:4


TABLE OF CONTENTS

California Quarterly, Volume 46, Number 4

  • Perhaps the Sun -  Margaret Saine 7
  • A Dream: Somewhere in Kansas - Gary Metheny 8
  • Secrets -  Glory Cumbow 9
  • Inside a Book of Stories - Marilyn Robertson 10
  • Bookshelves  - Sarah Baker 10
  • In Light, Hope  - Barbara Swift Brauer 11
  • Did I overhear Gen say - Elsa Samkow-Frausto 11
  • A Map of What Already Is - Charlene Langfur 12
  • Richness - Caleb Coy 13
  • The Wonder - Sonya Sabanac 14
  • Childhood Memory - Louise Moises 15
  • Dandelions - Craig Cotter 16
  • Unfettered  - Timothy Paul Evans 17
  • Praising the Untranslatable - Karen McPherson 18
  • Promessas de Cera - Daniel Dias Callahan 19
  • Still Life - Beatrice Fazio 20
  • Initial Tack - Keith Van Vliet 21
  • Riding the Wind - Cindy Rinne 22
  • Daybreak, Swimming Walden - Barbara Swift Brauer 23
  • Corral  - Meagan Arthur 24
  • How Things Are - Mary Crow 25
  • Or What Do You Learn When… -  Hedy Habra 26
  • Aquamarine - Maja Trochimczyk 27
  • Ocean - Casey Cantrell 28
  • Almost Square - Mary Crow 29
  • Emily’s Ocean - David Sapp 30
  • Watershed of Souls - Lonna Blodgett 31
  • Reflections on Gillies Lake - Ahmad Aamir Malik 32
  • My poems aren’t long - Elsa Samkow-Frausto 32
  • Vernazza - David Rosenheim 33
  • Things of the Sky - Elina Petrova 34
  • It’s True! - Gregory Cecil 35
  • The Mighty - Stefano Bortolussi 36
  • After the Rain - Thomas Mitchell 37
  • The Vineyard - Ivan Amaya-Hobson 38
  • Once my father was young - Elsa Samkow-Frausto 38
  • Reading a Limbed Monterey Pine - John Schneider 39
  • Recipe for a Goodbye - Jackie Chou 40
  • Disappearance - Pamela Singer      41
  • Pale Horse, No Rider - Jerry Sexton 42
  • As If - Craig Harris 42
  • Or Did You Think Crushed Hopes…  Hedy Habra 43
  • Love’s Jewelry - Patricia Corbus 44
  • Sunlight Smiling  - Margaret Saine 45
  • Who’s To Say Eden -  Barbara Swift Brauer 46
  • Between the bridge... - Elsa Samkow-Frausto 46
  • Fortieth Birthday - Joanne Holdridge 47
  • Movement in Three Parts - Mike Dillon 47
  • Alameda, CA - Ivan Amaya-Hobson 48
  • Desert Snow - Bryan Kirk 49
  • Distance - Michael Waterson 50
  • Moving in Limbo - Jane Stuart 51
  • Reincarnation Nation - John Grey 52
  • We Are All Sunrises  -  Manoylov 53
  • The Silence of Sunrise - James A. Tweedie 54
  • I look up at the sun - Margaret Saine 54
  • Two Tetragrams - Richard Kostelanetz 55
  • CSPS 34th Annual Poetry Contest - List of Winners 56
  • The Judge’s Comments -  McCormick 56
  • 1st Prize - Respite - Anara Guard 58
  • 2nd Prize - Low Sun Angle - Susan E. Gunter 59
  • 3rd Prize - Boundaries Barbara Allen 60
  • Contributors in Alphabetical Order 61
  • CSPS Contest Opportunities 62
  • CSPS Newsbriefs 2020, No. 4 63
  • Publishing Opportunities with CSPS 65
  • 2020 CSPS Donors and Patrons 66
  • CSPS Membership and Patron Information 67
  • CSPS Membership Form 68



California Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 3, 
Fall 2020, Edited by Terry Ehret
Cover Art: Mléčná dráha/Milky Way by Andrea Smišková Ehret

Table of Contents
California Quarterly, Volume 46, Number 3 (Fall 2020)

  • As Long as You - Sandra Kolankiewicz  7
  • Chaparral Diane Lee Moomey  8
  • Crossing Over Carla Schick  8
  • Truth — Camille Kantor  9
  • Insatiably Satiated — Sean MicKael Wilson  9
  • Icarus, My Child  — Basha Hirschfeld  10
  • After Waking — Leslie Hendrickson-Baral  11                                                             
  • words said at a crossroads —  Mayowa Oyewale  12
  • Co-Existence — Carla Schick  12
  • A Trip to Costco — Shawna L. Swetech  13
  • Kintsugi — D.K. Borowitz   14
  • The Turning — Ken Autrey 15
  • Letter in a Mine Field — Andrew Miller 16
  • Exile — Claire Drucker 17
  • America — Dane Cervine  18
  • On the Anniversary of the LA Riots — Philip Asaph  19
  • Young Americans — Eliot Schain 20
  • Oh, Sloping Land — Carol Griffin 21
  • I Had Chosen — Amy Moore  22
  • Samson — Iain Twiddy 23
  • Panacea — Gursahiba Gill  24
  • Negotiations with a Gorgon — Dovilè Meliauskaitè  25
  • I Invited a Rock, When I Should … — Abigail Selby 26
  • Summer Trip to Death Valley — Jianqing Zheng 27
  • Just Cold — Selina Whiteley 28
  • Is About — Jenny Kempf 29
  • When Matryoshka Dolls Take … — Rikki Santer 30
  • Mother Says I Have to Suffer … — Joan Gerstein 31
  • Those Odd Masks — James Piatt 32
  • Lyngby Sø  — Michael Pearce 33
  • Big River  — Joseph Murphy             34
  • A Kings River Scene at Laton — Bill Simmons 35
  • New Home — Raphael Block 35
  • River Road — Penel Alden 36
  • The Pink — Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue 37
  • If I were a poet, I would have known — Mariana Kovalic Silva 38
  • Meditation — Thomas Dorsett 39
  • the sound  —  Renée Owen 39
  • Schenectady — John Hazard 40
  • A Bird Sings — Susan Coronel 41
  • Cypress  — William Snyder Jr. 42
  • Ben Brown Answers the Fatalists  —  Michael Spence 43
  • Playing from Memory   — Frederick Wilbur 44
  • νησί των γατών (Isle of Cats)  —  Mark Osaki 45
  • pulse of cricket song —  Renée Owen 45
  • Greek Glamour — Ruth Holzer 46
  • Analog — Raynald Nayler 47
  • Dear Grandfathers — Matthew Williams  48
  • I Can See It in My Daughters’ Eyes — Livingston Rossmoor  49
  • Pharaoh’s Boat — Jane Stuart  50
  • Garden — Warren Slesinger 51
  • The Tomato Cage — John P. Kristofco 52
  • After Eons — Amy Trussell 53
  • To a Halt  — Cathy Porter  54
  • Thoughts from a Moving Train  — Marilyn Robertson 55
  • Days of Consequence   — Jean Esteve 56
  • The Circled Years — Nancy C. Dougherty 57
  • Permission — Sandra Anfang  58



California Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 2, 
Summer 2020, Edited by Maura Harvey
Cover Art: This Wave by Kathryn de Laszlo


TABLE OF CONTENTS
California Quarterly, Volume 46, Number 2

  • Sailing - Mark Belair 7
  • fragile is the rose - Peter S. Hein 7
  • Carpe, Fool - David Denny 8
  • Zarathustra Abecedarius - Fred Yannantuono 9
  • Nuggets from Namibia - Elizabeth Yahn Williams 9
  • Quarantine - Nicola Waldron 10
  • Five-Year Old - Roy Mash 10
  • The Williams Triad - Judith Saunders 11
  • Arbol a Uno Mirlo en … - Marisa Martínez Pérsico 12
  • A Tree for a Blackbird in … - Jeanie R.C. Toscano, tr. 13
  • Look, Stop and Listen - Milton P. Ehrlich 14
  • Nature’s Retreat - Tomas Gayton 15
  • Panic Pandemic - Tomas Gayton 15
  • Free - Esther L. Palmer 16
  • New Place - Bibhu, Pabhi 17
  • Obsession’s Motivated Solution - Jerry Sexton 18
  • Jose Feliciano in Concert - Edwin Romond 19
  • When the Last Piece of Clothing - Roy Mash 19
  • Flamingo Dawn - Mary Wilix 20
  • That Awkward Journey… - Evalyn Lee 21
  • blowing bubbles... - Deborah P. Kolodji 21
  • The Pier in Santiago Bay - Joseph D. Milosch 22
  • Find Me - a.Lynn Brown 23
  • Sparrow, Reversed - Cathryn Hankla 24
  • Freud’s Nudes - Ben Nice 24
  • Not Worth Reading  - Luis Gallo 25
  • The Carpenter Bee - Joel Savishinsky 26
  • Set at Oman - Elizabeth Yahn Williams 27
  • Cold as ICE - Anna Nicolas  28
  • Cowabunga! The Jam Jar is… - Kit Kennedy 29
  • Hoarder’s Excuse - Dana Stamps II 30
  • Cross-polination - Brian Kirven 31
  • Assessment - David C. Rice 32
  • It’s News to Me - Elizabeth Yahn Williams 33
  • Cities of this world… - ayaz daryl nielsen 33
  • Night Life - Brian Kirven 34
  • Vida Nocturna - Brian Kirven, tr. 35
  • Roxy’s Gift - Pearl Karrer 36
  • Like a Rush of Blackbirds - Pearl Karrer 36
  • Reading the Romantics - Roy Mash 37
  • we imagined we were men… - Robert Paul Cesaretti 38
  • Sage Advice - Jeffrey L. Taylor 38
  • Ice Walking - Jeeni Criscenzo 39
  • Suicidal Eagles - Kelly Talbot 40
  • Awake - Jane Ann Flint 41
  • Kandi - Marganne Glasser 42
  • partisan politics… - Deborah P Kolodji 42
  • A Long Way Away - Christopher Kuhl 43
  • Benumbed - Douglas Nordfors 44
  • That Day in Hades - Claire Scott 45
  • Strange Antlers  - Richard Jarrette 46
  • Clair de lune - Doreen Stock 48
  • Message Threads - Maura Harvey 49
  • Yeats and Lost Love  - Mai-Lon Gittelsohn 50
  • Sequester - Jane Ann Flint 51
  • Keeping in Touch - Mo Lynn Stoycoff 52
  • after our house fire - ayaz daryl nielsen 52
  • Isolating Guilt  - Terrie Ogilvie 53
  • Measure Twice, Cut Once- Todd Capeland 53
  • Warmth - Liz Dossa 54
  • Coyote Song - A.Downing-Yaconelli 55
  • Renewal - Lea Aschkenas 56
  • From A Window - Nicola Waldron 57
  • Summer Garden Ball - Jeeni Criscenzo 57
  • Extinctions - Joanne Sharp 58
  • spring rain - ayaz daryl nielsen 58




California Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 1, Spring 2020
Edited by Margaret Saine
Cover Art: Manoscritto di una vita 2018 (Manuscript of a Lifetime) by Enzo Patti




TABLE OF CONTENTS
California Quarterly, Volume 46, Number 1, Spring 2020

de Agua Salada - Mario Zúñiga Núñez 7
from Salt Water - Margaret Saine,Tr. 7
Italy Meets Ivory Coast - Kalyna Temertey-Canta 8
Dejaste un papel amarillo... - Javier Campos 9
You left a yellow paper... - Margaret Saine,Tr. 9
Love in a Field of Miners’ Lettuce - Susan E. Gunter 10
Fata Morgana in a Field of Tarweed - Dave Seter 11
Dusk - Aidan Coleman 12
World of Dreams - Alessio Zanelli 13
View from the Ranch - Alice Pero 14
“golden leaves fluttering birds...” - Rebecca Anne Banks 14
Not Mine to Shape -  David Anderson 15
Interlude in the Trader Joe’s... -  Joanne Jagoda 16
Hiking After the Dinner Party - Chris Foster 17
Milton’s Fluid - d.p. houston 17
Мигът - Alexander Shurbanov 19
Moment - Alexander Shurbanov, Tr. 19
What’s Inside - Beth S. Pollak 20
I Was Wild Once - Gwynn O’Gara 21
Elevator -  Cathy Porter 22
Men at Work - Tasha Cotter 23
Kite  - Clarke Andros 24
Recuerdo - Alejandra Castellanos 25
Memory - Margaret Saine, Tr. 25
The Moon Is an Egret - Michael Montgomery 26
Melancholie - Karl Greisinger 27
Melancholy - Margaret Saine, Tr. 27
Committees - David Pratt 28
Home Front: A Remembrance - Jean Esteve 29
Politicians - Pande Manoylov 30
Del Origen - Otoniel Guevara 31
About the Origin - Margaret Saine, Tr. 31
No Cure - Claire Scott 32
The Road of Love - Timothy Fab-Eme 33
Armonia - Rita Stanzione 34
Harmony - Margaret Saine, Tr. 34
Stars Behind Your Eyes - Susan Richardson 35
Impara la tua arte... Claudia Russo 36
Learn your art... Margaret Saine, Tr. 37
Alertos emergen los verdes - Jeanie R. C. Toscano 38
Alert the greens emerge - Margaret Saine, Tr. 39
Epithalamion - John Blair 40
definitorio - Elizabeth Soto 41
in lieu of a definition - Margaret Saine, Tr. 41
Snowmelt - Marianne Karplus 42
A Second Look - John Schneider 42
Do the Garden Snails Know? - Lane Larson 43
de la utilidad de la poesía II - Eliécer Almaguer 44
on the usefulness of poetry II - Margaret Saine, Tr. 45
Sculpture - Lisa Shirley 46
Vision - Matthew J. Spireng 47
The Dame Who Marks Time - Marie Lecrivain 48
My Hollow Window - Marilynn Talal 49
Paying the Ferryman - Ruth Holzer 50
Door - Benjamin Nash 51
Mom & the Bridge - Kristin Lawrence 52
Wish - Patricia Nelson 53
When... Donald Fisher 54
Last Pomegranate - Maja Trochimczyk 55
Hai bevuto una spremuta - Terry Olivi 56
You drank a freshly squeezed - Margaret Saine, Tr. 57
Agonies of Sand - Savita Singh 58



TABLE OF CONTENTS OF 
THE CALIFORNIA QUARTERLY IN 2019


California Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 4, 
Winter 2019, Edited by Pearl Karrer
Cover Art: Ice Cutting by Pearl Karrer

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Leaves of Poems  -   Thomas A. West, Jr.   -   7
  • Hiking Mogollon Rim    -  Jedediah Smith  -  8
  • Reply to Adrienne  - Allegra Jostad Silberstein  -  9
  • Giving Way    -    Anne-Marie Cadwallader   - 10
  • Penumbra    -   James Deahl   - 11
  • Kaleidoscope   -  Valerie M. Griggs    -   12
  • Windows    -    Marilyn Robertson   -  12
  • Brittle as Silica  -   Yixuan Shi    -  13
  • Desert Dance at Joshus Tree -  Dana Robbins  -  14
  • Crossings  -    Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong   -   15
  • The Lucky Ones -   Lucille Lang Day  -  16
  • Ranas   -  Carla Pravisani     -    17
  • Frogs   -  Margaret Saine (Tr.)   -   17
  • The Backpack for the Pilgrimage   -   Martina Nicholson   -   18
  • Crossing Over   -    Mike Dillon  -  19
  • Canary. Coalmine.   -  Susan Schaefer Bernardo  - 20
  • Coming of Age   -   Charles Joseph Albert   -    22
  • Be Still   -   Jacqueline Henry   -  23
  • Spin Cycle    -    Susan Schaefer Bernardo   -  24
  • Dance from Another Continent   -   Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong - 26
  • Let It Be   -    Allegra Jostad Silberstein -   26
  • On Losing a Friend to Camouflage  -  Stephanie Pressman  -   27
  • Love in Autumn  - Laurie Lessen Reiche  - 28
  • Innisfree  - Marilyn Robertson  -  29
  • Evanesce   -   Richard Brostoff   -  30
  • The New Life   -  Steven Gizitsky  -  32
  • Heat Wave    -    Johanna Ely     -  33
  • Downward from the Flames -Lucille Lang Day- 34
  • Where Is Love   -  Barbara Tramonte   -     35
  • Judith and Holofernes  - Stephanie Pressman -  36
  • Design   - Valerie M. Griggs  -   38
  • Intimate Conversation  -  Gary Metheny  -  39
  • Paint Job  -  Kevin J. McDaniel   -  40
  • Cerebral Roulette   -   Charles Joseph Albert    -  41 
  • Her Voice Is a Wing  -  Steven Gizitsky  -    42
  • Otoño en el pensamiento  - Carla Pravisani   -   43
  • Autumn in my ThoughtsMargaret Saine (Tr.) - 43
  • Drake’s Estero   -   Jeffrey L. Taylor  -   44
  • View from Tam -    Jeffrey L. Taylor   -   44
  • A Lamp on a Polished Table  -  Katharyn Howd Machan - 45
  • Self Portrait 1907:…  -    Jeanne Wagner   - 46
  • White Camellias in November - Jerome Gagnon - 47
  • Wonder   -  William Synder, Jr.  -   48
  • Equinox    -    James Deahl     -  49
  • On Crossing an Alpine Snowfield -  Scott Honeycutt   - 50
  • When My Neighbor Says the Fence -  Jeanne Wagner - 51
  • Walking among Redwoods  -   Jerome Gagnon -  52
  • Our Silence Is in Listening   -  Johanna Ely   -  53
  • Snowdrop     -   DJ Tyrer  -  53
  • The 33rd Annual Poetry Contest     -   54
  • Brief Judge’s Bio (Lisa Rosenberg)  -   54
  • Judge’s Comments  -   55
  • Stone, She  -    R. J. Keeler   -    56
  • Skull of Moon, Fist of Stars  - Claire Scott  -  57
  • For the Young Man Unimpressed - Kathleen McClung - 58




California Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 3, 
Fall 2019, Edited by Maja Trochimczyk 
Cover Art: Fruit and Teacups by Debby Beck

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Remembering Russell Salamon - Lois P. Jones 7
  • Redwood Trees - Russell Salamon 8
  • Lament Flight - Russell Salamon 9
  • Nocturne 8 - Russell Salamon 10
  • Nocturne 16 - Russell Salamon 11
  • Serenity at Dawn - Jianquing Zheng 12
  • folding laundry - Willitts Jr. Martin 12
  • Context and the Seasons - Sandra Kolankiewicz 13
  • Near Delphi - Jane Stuart 13
  • Roman Holiday - Leslie Hendrickson-Baral 14
  • On the Capitoline -  Ruth Holzer 14
  • Kuramathi Dawn - Alessio Zanelli 15
  • Lake Willoughby - David Rosenheim 16
  • Wash Wonderland - Pamela Shea 17
  • Seeing - Jianquing Zheng 18
  • Cambria - William Scott Galasso 19
  • Patience after Basho - Carla Schick 20
  • The Breath - Maggie Hawthorne 21
  • The Mystery of Time - Anna Maria Mickiewicz 21
  • Casals Plays the Cello Suites - Deborah Bachels Schmidt 22
  • Sapote - Kath Abela Wilson 23
  • Summer Apple - Georgia Jones-Davis 24
  • Canning Apricots - Deborah Bachels Schmidt 25
  • Three Deliveries and a Room... Mariano Zaro 26
  • Mama - Susan Keyes Morrison 28
  • Today - I Put Up Dill Pickles Lynne Potts 29
  • Eri un maestro potatore - Terry Olivi 30
  • Il primo fiore di limone - Terry Olivi 30
  • You were a master at pruning - Margaret Saine, tr. 31
  • The first lemon blossom - Margaret Saine, tr. 31
  • At the Funeral - C. Dodds Musser 32
  • Anatomy of a Blanket - Elsa Samkow-Frausto 33
  • Ardoch Homestead - Susan Keyes Morrison 34
  • I know the figs are ripe - Kath Abela Wilson 34
  • La fin du monde - Mick Kennedy 35
  • Mom’s Word - L. Hendrickson-Baral 36
  • The German Chancellor... Sharon Chmielarz 37
  • Sserenity in Bend - Mary Jo West 38
  • Moving through the Lawn - Joel Fry 38
  • We Exist - Margaret Saine 39
  • It is Enough for Now - Andrena Zawinski 40
  • Cosi esisti - Paolo Staglianò 41
  • This is how you exist - Margaret Saine, tr. 41
  • One - Jane Rosenberg LaForge 42
  • End of the Line - Mark Belair 43
  • Fox in the Woods - Brendan O’Tuathalain 44
  • Eyes of Love - Emory D. Jones 44
  • Tree Rings - Richard Dinges, Jr. 45
  • The Cathedral at Chartres - C. Dodds Musser 46
  • Patchwork Dream Pantoum ... Andrena Zawinski 47
  • (Abecederian) Bird Feeder - Guinotte Wise 48
  • Bobcat and Two Cubs - Annette Friend 49
  • Partons à la découverte des îles - Éliphen Jean 50
  • Let’s Go & Discover the Islands - Margaret Saine, tr. 51
  • Coyote - Ed Rosenthal 52
  • Mountains - Clint Bowman 53
  • in this windfallen - Kath Abela Wilson 53
  • Carving the Mystic Wood - Brian K. Turner 54
  • Unbroken Circle - P.V. Beck 55
  • A House of Air - Susan Rogers 56
  • Greening - P.C. Moorehead 57
  • After Climbing - Jianquing Zheng 58
  • a guttural cry of geese - Willitts Jr. Martin 59
  • The Day after Thanksgiving - Jessica Day 60





California Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 2, Summer 2019 
edited by Nancy Cavers Dougherty 
Cover Art: Lettuce by Christine Walker

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Unlikely and Least - Raphael Block 7
  • Moon Music - Mark J. Mitchell 8
  • Out Park Presidio - John Briscoe  9
  • Crepuscular - Reza Ghahremanzadeh 10
  • I’m Only Thinking... - David James 11
  • Instinctual - Amy Trussell 12
  • After Sorrows - Jackie Huss Hallerberg 13
  • All the Weight - Holly Day 14
  • Venice - Ken Autrey 15
  • Aftershock - Michael Cadnum 16
  • Unsure of What the Sea’s... - Fred Yannantuono 17
  • My Husband Is a Gypsy - Marcia B. Loughran 18
  • Vine in Leaf - Doreen Stock 19
  • Bear Lake, Idaho - Ana Manwaring 20
  • American Kestrel - Joyce Snyder 21
  • Afterwards - John Terenzi 22
  • Karmic Strings - John Forrest Harrell 23
  • Faded - Raleigh Scott Wood 23
  • We Were Speaking of Picasso - Doreen Stock 24
  • By the River - Milly Brown 25
  • Grand Canyon Treasure - John Forrest Harrell 26
  • Travel Time - C. Fausto Cabrera 27
  • Stealing Fire - Raphael Block 28
  • News - Andrew Vogel 29
  • Prayer Rug - Fahredin Shehu 29
  • Le Onde - Paolo Staglianò 30
  • The Waves - Margaret Saine (tr.)  31
  • Interlude - John Forrest Harrell 32
  • The Parade - Gregory Natt 33
  • Without Device - Margaret Rooney 34
  • The Dilemma of the Quercus - Ana Manwaring 35
  • Faith - Jackie Huss Hallerberg 36
  • Invisible Silence - Linda Ibbotson 37
  • Something Cold Hit the Window - Pamela Stone Singer 38
  • The Art of Transforming... - Charlene Langfur 39
  • Image of our Winterreise - Fahredin Shehu 40
  • Veteran’s Day, 2018 - Thomas A. West, Jr. 41
  • Scent - Laura Blatt 42
  • Votive - Andrew Vogel 43
  • Out of the Loop - Kate McNairy 44
  • Amelia Earhart - Reza Ghahremanzadeh 45
  • Folk Song - Mark J. Mitchell 45
  • How to Live - Marilyn Robertson 46
  • Television - Kate McNairy 47
  • The Player King and His Troupe...- Robert Cooperman 48
  • Free Will - d.p. houston 49
  • Beachcomber - Bray McDonald 50
  • Feeding Time in the Valley - Arlene Downing-Yaconelli 51
  • Cellist - Margaret Rooney 52
  • Sky Burial - Pamela Stone Singer 53
  • History - Gregory Natt 54
  • Momentary Sighting - Marcia B. Loughran 55
  • The Rain in Santa Clarita - Michael P. Montgomery 56
  • Common Prayer, Sutro Heights - John Briscoe 57
  •  Ramble in a Coastal Wood - Deborah Taylor-French 58




California Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 1, Spring 2019, 
Edited by Maura Harvey
Cover Art: Blue Ice by Marion Wang

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Go to the Blue Oak - Dave Seter 7
  • Prism at Sunrise - Marganne Glasser 8
  • My Clarity - Lea Aschkenas 9
  • Scenes by the Pepper Tree - Carla McGill 10
  • Here Now - Claudia Chapline 12
  • Untitled Haiku - Elizabeth Yahn Williams 12
  • a pantoum yet to be titled - David Anderson 13
  • Who Will Inherit Our Earth? - James Deahl 14
  • Phoenix - Steve Denehan 15
  • The Formula for Success - Matthew J. Spireng 15
  • અક્ષર - Piyush Thakkar 16
  • Letter -  Dileep Jhaveri (Tr.) 17
  • Old Westerns and a Fistful...- Neal Zirn 18
  • Autumn Sunlight - 3 Tanka - Jane Stuart 19
  • Sixty - Doris Padilla 20
  • Day Dream - Michael J. Shepley 20
  • A Man at Sixty - Warren Slesinger 21
  • Great Uncle Tierney - Joseph Milosch 22
  • What Will You Do - Sharon Fain 23
  • Recordando Sus Pasos - Brian Kirven 24
  • Remembering His Steps - Brian Kirven (Tr.) 25
  • Assisted Living - Joanne Sharp 26
  • A Walk in the Woods - Diane Funston 27
  • Brevity - Brenda Yates 28
  • Untitled Haiku - Elizabeth Yahn Williams 29
  • Dawn - Liz Dossa 30
  • A Sense of Direction - Mai-Lon Gittelsohn 31
  • A Lifetime in a Cup of Tea - Jim Moreno 32
  • On a Painting by Chagall - David Denny 33
  • Game of Plastic - L. B. Miller 34
  • Fall Sweep - Gwen Monohan 35
  • Seagulls - Dion O’Reilly 36
  • Out of the Blind - Stephen Ajay 37
  • Investment Advice - AE Hines 38
  • My Head Under Construction - Amanda Lewis 39
  • An Old Story - Al Zolynas 40
  • Sometimes I Can’t Watch... - Marty Walsh 41
  • The Bears - Kristin Ruth Lawrence 42
  • Collecting Cuyas - Tomás Gayton 43
  • Mt. San Jacinto, Sunrise - Peter Hein 44
  • The Cruel One - Dennis B. Ledden 44
  • Bats at Twilight Penny Perry 45
  • don’t know what you’ve got... - Joanne Sharp 46
  • Widow Ellen - Tovatt Leary 47
  • It’s Her Way - Gary Metheny 48
  • * - Simon Perchik 49
  • Customer Service Has Its Limits - George J. Searles 50
  • Hoarding Time - Claire Scott 51
  • The Dance - Sandy Carpenter 52
  • Winding Down - John Forrest Harrell 52
  • Untitled Haiku - Elizabeth Yahn Williams 53
  • Farewell to Bristol - Michael J. Shepley 53
  • Hollywood Glamour V... - David E. Spiering 54
  • Nasturtium - Patricia Nelson 55
  • Assumptions - Cathy Porter 56
  • Without Rain - 4 - Daniel Thomas 57
  • Solstice - John P. Kristofco 58




TABLES OF CONTENTS OF 
THE CALIFORNIA QUARTERLY IN 2018

California Quarterly 44:1, Spring 2018 
Edited by Maja Trochimczyk
Cover Art: Yucca  by Abby Diamond

TABLE OF CONTENTS
California Quarterly, Volume 44, Number 1

  • Fragments - Jerry Sexton 7
  • The Night Sky - Thomas Mitchell 8
  • October Yellow Jackets - Mary Lou Wickham 9
  • Yellow School Bus (Haiku) - William Scott Galasso 9
  • Autumn Song - Thomas Mitchell 10
  • Meditation - Pamela Shea 10
  • Coming Home - Momoyo Capanna 11
  • The Holy - Claire Millikin 12
  • Pause at the Long Valley Caldera - Selma Calnan 13
  • Autumn of My Life (Tanka) - Kath Abela Wilson 13
  • Devore Fire - Dana Stamps, II 14
  • Light Shimmers (Haiku) - Maja Trochimczyk 14
  • Evacuation - Shirley Geok-lin Lim 15
  • Unknown Happens - David E. Howerton 15
  • Waiting for Santa Claus  - Shirley Geok-lin Lim 16
  • Japanese Maple (Haiku) - Susan Rogers 17
  • Parti juste comme ça - Michael D. Amitin 18
  • Gone Like That - Lionel Roudet (Tr.) 19
  • Elohim - d.p. houston 20
  • Waiting - Marlene Hitt 20
  • National Botanical Gardens - Alun Rees 21
  • Late October  - Thomas Mitchell 22
  • Signs of Winter (Tanka) - Kath Abela Wilson 22
  • Good Evening - AE Hines 23
  • Visión del Vals de La Nieve - Rodolfo Hausler 24
  • First Snow - Kath Abela Wilson 24
  • A Vision of the Snow Waltz - Margaret Saine (Tr.) 25
  • Winter Triangle (Haiku) - Deborah P Kolodji 25
  • Christmas Cards - Ken Autrey 26
  • Quatre Saisons - Jane Stuart 27
  • In the Village of Trélex - Lois P. Jones 28
  • Song of the Pear - Lia Brooks 29
  • Water from Air - Jane North 30
  • Only My (Haiku) - Deborah P Kolodji 30
  • Meeting Max on His Zero Birthday - Patricia Hukill 31
  • Shining Shoes - Ken Autrey 32
  • Wren Song (Haiku) - Deborah P Kolodji 32
  • Twone - Alessio Zanelli 33
  • Remembering When … New -   David E. Howerton 33
  • The Wish of Hedera - Kath Abela Wilson 34
  • Race to Spring - Alice Pero 35
  • When That Radiance Breaks - Stephen Colley 36
  • Lucid - d.p. houston 37
  • Cerulean Blue - AE Hines 38
  • The Veil - Mimi Whittaker 39
  • Cutouts - Ken Autrey 40
  • Catching Wood - John Schneider 41
  • Playing with Shadows - Margaret Saine 42
  • Puny Human - Joshua Savage 43
  • Response to Mother Earth - Joshua Savage 44
  • To Ear by Wing - Kath Abela Wilson 45
  • Grass - Susan Rogers 46
  • Off the Dock - John Schneider 47
  • Can’t Sit Still (Haiku) - William Scott Galasso 47
  • Waves Crashing - David E. Howerton 48
  • The Sea - Alessio Zanelli 48
  • Sandpipers - Jean Esteve 49
  • Salt Wind (Haiku) - Deborah P Kolodji 49
  • Twin Jellyfish (Haiku) - Maja Trochimczyk 49
  • Awakening Marlene Hitt  - 50
  • An Orchestra of Dreams - Jane Stuart 50
  • Trampoline Cleaning - Pamela Shea 51
  • Peaceful Journey - Marlene Hitt 51
  • Where I Live - Dana Stamps, II 52
  • Erin’s Song - Susan Rogers 53
  • Visión de Orion - Rodolfo Hausler 54
  • Suza  - Susan Rogers 54
  • Vision of Orion - Margaret Saine (Tr.) 55
  • I Will Be Burned (Tanka) - William Scott Galasso 55
  • To Come - Madeleine S. Butcher 56
  • Creation - Jane Stuart 56
  • Revel … - Alice Pero 57
  • White on Blue - Stephen Colley 58
  • Arbor Cosmica - Maja Trochimczyk 59




California Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 2, Summer 2018 
Edited by Pearl Karrer

TABLE OF CONTENTS


California Quarterly, Volume 44, Number 2

  • Delicious - Alan Harawitz 7
  • Fact Checking Poetry... - D. A. Hosek 7
  • Against Resolutions - Jeanine Stevens 8
  • Bloom - Marilyn Robertson 9
  • Books - Johanna Ely 10
  • Caravans - David Luisi 11
  • A Cave to Come Under #9 - Neil Cain 11
  • The Girl in the Garden -  Gary Metheny 12
  • András Schiff Plays Bach’s... - Lucille Lang Day 13
  • Semaphores - Bonnie Kwong 14
  • Still Life at Sea - Joseph Zaccardi 16
  • Coming of Age - Bonnie McManis 17
  • Warnings from Rattlesnake Ridge - Lisa Norris 18
  • Scout - Susan Terris 19
  • Poema olvidado -  Maura Harvey 20
  • Forgotten Poem - Maura Harvey (Tr.) 21
  • Enter the Emperor -  Dan Richman 22
  • Ancient World - Mary Jo West 23
  • Stones  - Marvin Glasser 24
  • Silence  - Mike Dillon 24
  • Milk and Moonlight - Betsy Mars 25
  • I Dreamed of Skyscrapers - Paula Yup 25
  • Artist - Howard Winn 26
  • Single-Spaced Life - Claire Scott 27
  • Looking into Things - Marvin Glasser 28
  • Disappearing Act - Howard Winn 29
  • Prologue to The Taming... - Craig Kurtz 30
  • Hamlet Alive  - Ira Rosenstein 31
  • Trucker Dream  - Judith Ann Levison 32
  • Toast  - Susan Terris 33
  • The Glove Factory -  Claire Ortaldo 34
  • Indigo Warp, White  Weft - Kevin Casey 36
  • Wander Land -  James Ph. Kotsybar 36
  • There is a small room... - Kenneth Salzmann 37
  • Grief is Messy - Cathy Porter 38
  • Combs and Brushes - Matthew J. Spireng 39
  • American Original - Alan Harawitz 40
  • Backbeat - Dan Richman 41
  • The I Afloat - Marvin Glasser 42
  • Two Birds on a Wire - Johanna Ely 43
  • Taking Off Our Clothes - Claire Ortalda 44
  • Promises - Alice Gresto 46
  • Farewell - Judith Ann Levison 47
  • Burning Poems - Deborah H. Doolittle 48
  • Incarnation - Betsy Mars 49
  • Sun - Santiago B. Villafania 50
  • Oppression - Marilyn Robertson 51
  • Oración de plenilunio - Maura Harvey 52
  • Full Moon Prayer - Maura Harvey 53
  • Temples - Bonnie McManis 54
  • At twilight - Johanna Ely 55
  • undula-  Bonnie Kwong 56
  • Roses  - Lucille Lang Day 58
  • At the End of the Day  - David James 59




California Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 3, Fall 2018
 Edited by Terry Ehret


TABLE OF CONTENTS
California Quarterly, Volume 44, Number 3

  • Interview -  Gerald Fleming 7
  • Connect - Gerald Fleming 7
  • Disección de la poesía - Eliécer Almaguer 8
  • Dissection of Poetry- - Margaret Saine (Tr.) 9
  • Before Words - Maurice Healy 10
  • Two Autumns  - Maurice Healy 10
  • Down I-5 - Rosa Lane 11
  • crawl along roses - Evan Anders 12
  • She/Her - Claire Scott 13
  • graffiti - Khédija Gadhoum 14
  • graffiti - Margaret Saine (Tr.) 15
  • The One He Calls Beautiful - Jean Esteve 16
  • Great Storm - DJ Tyrer 16
  • Found Poem for the Lost - E. P. Fisher 17
  • Once Again - d.n. simmers 18
  • where are the nice boys - Anthony Simone 19
  • losing - Anthony Simone 19
  • Gate - Patricia Nelson 20
  • Rowers on the Pier - Owen O’Sullivan 21
  • The Rest is Silence - Phyllis Meshulam 22
  • Summer  - Shawna L. Swetech 23
  • Waterfall - Janet Jennings 24
  • In the Boboli - Kevin Pryne 25
  • borderless days  - Renée Owen 25
  • Padre Island - Troy Reeves 26
  • Big Yellow Fan  - Gary Metheny 27
  • Misperception of Time - John Zedolik 28
  • Nocturnus 13 - Jeff Graham 29
  • Nocturnus 16 - Jeff Graham 29
  • Colored Star - Tom McFadden 30
  • Night - Raphael Block 31
  • Non È Questo un Sogno? - Antonio Blunda 32
  • Is This Not a Dream? - Margaret Saine (Tr.) 32
  • Evening Dreams - Richard Dinges, Jr. 33
  • deep - Renée Owen 33
  • Pascal’s Law of Connected Vessels - Vince Montague 34
  • where sea - Renée Owen 35
  • Bible Studies #8 - Murray Silverstein 36
  • Did - Steve Gilmartin 37
  • God’s Math - Pamela Sumners 38
  • A Memory in Exile - Baloian 40
  • white butterflies - Renée Owen 40
  • The Road - Patrice Warrender 41
  • Inshallah - Flaminia Cruciani 42
  • Inshallah - Steven Grieco-Rathgeb (Tr.) 43
  • Dove si trova il senso del sentiero? - Cinzia Marulli 44
  • Where is the sense of the road? - Margaret Saine (Tr.) 45
  • Clearing in a Grove  - Stephanie Moore 46
  • Sadique Couture - Stephen Eric Berry 47
  • What I Teach 3rd Graders - Lisa Shulman 48
  • Remorse - d. p. houston 50
  • Have Mercy Upon Me, O Lord - Jean Wong 50
  • Up in the Rockies - Brenda Yates 52
  • Temporal - Barbara Swift Brauer 52
  • Like a Cloud Calling Me Rainy - Mark Ellis 53
  • Not So Ill a Wind -  Marilyn Robertson 54
  • Immersing the Ashes - Maya Khosla 55
  • Love in the Laundromat - Diane Lee Moomey 56
  • At Night We Can See Butterflies  -Jane Stuart 57
  • After Storms  - Matthew J. Spireng 57
  • What Do You Remember? - Ambika Talwar 58
  • Imagination Longing - Sean Lause 59



California Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 4, Winter 2018
Edited by Margaret Saine
Cover Art:  Nude Ascending from a Sardine Tin, Michael Kostiuk

TABLE OF CONTENTS


  • The Story So Far- Marilyn Robertson 7
  • கௌதம சித்தார்த்தன் - Gouthama Siddarthan 8
  • Summer Notes - Gouthama Siddarthan (Tr) 9
  • Blue Moon Warning  - Alice Pero 10
  • God Speaks Only French - Claire Scott 11
  • Diktát Č. 34: Pozvánka - Mircea Dan Duta 12
  • Dictation No. 34:  - Translation Judit Antal (Tr) 13
  • Aquatic Galaxy -  Kalyna Temertey-Canta 14
  • Transmigrant - Terrence Sykes 14
  • Several Short Poems - Rebecca Anne Banks 15
  • Cambios de Piel- Ulalume González de León 16
  • Skin Changes - Terry Ehret (Tr) 16 John Johnson (Tr) 16 Nancy Morales (Tr) 16
  • Bird Watching - Robert Rothman 17
  • Elizabeth Bishop’s Moose - Howard Winn 18
  • * - Simon Perchik 19
  • Tree Frog - David Sapp 20
  • Equinox - Nancy Botkin 21
  • L’uomo è grande when - Ilaria Caffio and Flaminia Cruciani 22
  • Man is great when - Margaret Saine (Tr) 22
  • Nuremberg Trials - Rod Farmer 23
  • Wanting To Burn - Shirley Powers 24
  • No Poem - Pat Hukill 24
  • Imaginary Surgeries - Thomas Mampalam 25
  • Papá, No! - Anna Nicholas 26
  • Polar Seasons - William Hagen 27
  • Përtej Kohës... - Nikollë Loka 28
  • Beyond Time... - Margaret Saine (Tr) 29
  • Reminiscencias - Mercedes Roffé 30
  • Reminiscences - Margaret Saine (Tr) 31
  • Half Moon Night - Charlene Langfur 32
  • Dust - Marilynn Talal 33
  • acrópolis - Khedija Gadhoum 34
  • acropolis - Margaret Saine (Tr) 35
  • The Seed - Michelle Bond 36
  • Rain - Patricia Hukill 36
  • El Disfraz de Las Palabras - Jeanie Toscano 37
  • Words in Disguise - Margaret Saine (Tr) 37
  • Paraunia - Santiago Villafania 38
  • Desert Song - Dana Stamps, II 39
  • Vacío - Eliécer A. Almaguer 40
  • Void  - Margaret Saine (Tr) 41
  • Bisogno di Mani - Roberto Maggiani 42
  • A Need of Hands - Margaret Saine (Tr) 42
  • Não grito, só sussurro... - Mauricia Gomes 43
  • I don’t scream, I only hum... - Margaret Saine (Tr) 43
  • Missing Neighbor - Alessio Zanelli 44
  • Grit - Patricia Hukill 44
  • Red Sky at Morning - William Scott Galasso 45
  • Raining Legs -  Kalyna Temertey-Canta 46
  • An Ode to Piss - Akiva Israel 47
  • Untitled - Jeff Graham 47
  • Untitled - Jeff Graham 47
  • Kiş Korkusu - Şafak Çelík 48
  • Winter Fear - Mehmet Asmali (Tr) Ufuk Çelík (Tr) 49
  • A Variety of Need - Robert J. Howe 50
  • An Uncool Hat  - d. p. houston 51
  • Oh, the Art of Looking - Maja Trochimczyk 52

  • The 32nd Annual Poetry Contest 53
  • Judge’s Comments - MaryLee McNeal 54
  • Moonlight - Peter Parker 55
  • Two Boardwalks -  Kathleen McClung 56
  • Stitching Shadows -  Claire Scott 58




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