California State Poetry Society: CQ 2018-2025

CALIFORNIA QUARTERLY IN 2018-2025

Table of Contents of California Quarterly

Vol. 51, No. 1, Spring 2025

California Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 1, Spring 2025, Edited by r.g.cantalupo and Maja Trochimczyk

Cover image " Whispers of Passion" by Kasia Czerpak-Weglinski,

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Of the Nightwater — Casey Mills 7

Thaw — Shelley Getten 8

Waiting for Magic — Doreen Beyer 9

Flow — Sandra Hughes 10

Overflow — Livio Farallo 11

You’ll Know When You Wake Up — Gregory Gourley 12

What We Did Not See — Donna L. Emerson 14

On these Long Silences — John Schneider 15

Hamlet in the Stars — Bill Vartnaw 16

Instructions for Waking Up — G. H. Mosson 16

The Currency of Childhood — Kathleen Travers 18

The Girl Who Talked to the Moon — Christine Candland 20

Holly Fully — Ellice Jeon 20

Pronunciation — David Blake 22

Foreword — Robert Hammond Dorsett 22

Above the Caldera of Crater Lake — Jiang Pu 23

Cats — Shelley Getten 24

Departures — Gloria Keeley 25

The Nature of Open Doors — John Schneider 26

Voice — Matthew J. Spireng 27

Small Flowers — Craig Harris 27

Old Roses – For 4 Voices — Richard Stokes 28

Threading a Needle — Matthew J. Spireng 29

trembling fingers... — Kelly Talbot 29

Alzheimer Archipelago — Gregory Gourley 30

My Mind Has Become a Sieve — Richard Stokes 31

Iris — Lynne Potts 32

An eye-catching… — Gregory Cecil 32

A Magical Pudding — W.C. Gosnell 33

Something of Value — Shelley Getten 34

Nine Years after Mom Died — Donna L. Emerson 35

Bananas — Gregory Gourley 36

The Whistling Kid — Anne Stone 37

Getting Through the Day — David Romanda 37

Courage — r.g. cantalupo 38

A Dream — Robert Hammond Dorsett 39

The Mountain in my Yard — Kathleen Travers 40

Eucalyptus Seedling — Paul Willis 41

A Town Called Anon — Mather Schneider 42

Dreams — Richard T. Ringley 42

Searching — Caroline Selby 43

Creaturely Terms — Tor Lee 44

The self is… — W.C. Gosnell 44

I Thought of What My Life Would Be — Mark Katrinak 45

Ricochet — Alessio Zanelli 46

Prayers — Doreen Beyer 46

We Go to Come and Come To Go Again — Craig Harris 47

Those Before — Hector Moreno-Torres 48

Black into Blue — Tor Lee 48

When Everything Goes Dark — Myles Gordon 49

On Watching the Eclipse — Richard T. Ringley 49

The End of It All — David Blake 50

You Can Build It [14] — Andrew Hanson 51

Learning From May — G.H. Mosson 51

Turn Table — Mather Schneider 52

Turning Point — Alessio Zanelli 53

A Piece of Driftwood — Bruce McBirney 54

The Gold Tree — Oriana Siska 55

Catalina Eddy — Christine Candland 56

The Rain — Robert Hammond Dorsett 57

I Am — Caroline Selby 58

Contributors in Alphabetical Order 59

CSPS Contest Opportunities 60

CSPS Newsbriefs 2025, No. 1 by Maja Trochimczyk 62

Publishing Opportunities with CSPS 65

2024 CSPS Donors, Patrons, and Membership 66

Membership Form 68

Table of Contents of California Quarterly

Vol. 50, No. 4, Winter 2024

California Quarterly 50/4 (Winter 2024), eds. Marlene Hitt and Konrad Tademar Wilk. Cover Art: Petals of Memory. Photo of “Compassion” Rose by Maja Trochimczyk, 2022.

CONTENTS

Polymorphic Tumbled Stuff — Gurupreet K. Khalsa 7

The Lighthouse — Louise Moises 8

Sometimes at the Edge of Sleep — Deborah Bachels Schmidt 9

In the Season of the Crows, — Deborah Bachels Schmidt 10

bougainvillea cave — Gregory Cecil 11

An Archaeology of Ignorance — Joel Savishinsky 12

A Noiseless Spider (Revisited) — r.g. cantalupo 13

Of Singing Mice — Deborah Bachels Schmidt 14

Puzzled — Carolyn Jabs 16

The Heat of the San Joaquin — Rosemary Ybarra-Garcia 17

In Dreams — Brian Cronwall 18

Resignation — Jonathan Bennett 19

A Candle, April 2020 — Carla S. Schick 20

Metal Ladies — Rosemary Ybarra-Garcia 22

All Hallows' Warning — Joe DeCenzo 23

Without Hope — Caire Scott 24

Lifting the Spell — Carolyn Jabs 25

On the Porch — Donna Emerson 26

Red Boat Remembers — Deborah B. Schmidt 27

Gloria’s Garden Café in Hilo, February 1993 — Brian Cronwall 28

How Does a Planet Evaporate? — Gurupreet K. Khalsa 29

The Snake Speaks — David Anderson 30

The Patriarchs Die First — Carolyn Jabs 31

Retirement — Maja Trochimczyk 32

talking — Gregory Cecil 32

I Saw the Edery Woman This Morning — Livingston Rossmoor 33

Good Night, Virginia — Donna Emerson 34

That Snifter of Brandy in an Irish Pub — Katharyn Howd Machan 35

Walk Along the Promenade -— Ambika Talwar 36

In the Garden — Dorothy Brooks 38

Shavings — Jonathan Bennett 39

Similitude of the Rock — Allen Strother 40

The Sphere Inside the Cone: The Archimedes Palimpsest — David Anderson 41

Computer, Write a Shakespearean Sonnet — r.g.cantalupo 42

Falling Frames — Stephanie DuPont 43

Bandana — Jonathan Bennett 44

It Is What It Is — Sharon Chmielarz 44

My Place of Dreams — Carolyn Chilton Casas 45

I Watch the Bees at the Sunflowers — Kenneth White 46

Heart with Wings — Ambika Talwar 47

Birth — Anna Maria Mickiewicz 48

The Fruit of the Blue Tree — Konrad Tademar Wilk 49

A Soldier’s Journey — Ambika Talwar 50

Dream of a Dodo — Deborah B. Schmidt 51

Reparenting — Jonathan Bennett 51

By Way of a Star’s Light -— Cara S. Schick 52

Break the Mold — Dennis Ross 53

Presence of Prayer — Ei Sanchez 54

Disquietude — Konrad Tademar Wilk 55

37th Annual Poetry Contest Winners and Comments 56

Contributors in Alphabetical Order 59

CSPS Contest Opportunities 60

CSPS Newsbriefs 2024, No. 4 by Maja Trochimczyk 62

Publishing Opportunities with CSPS 65

2024 CSPS Donors, Patrons, and Membership 66

Membership Form 68

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

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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 8
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              8
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

California Quarterly, Vol 48, Number 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

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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

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
Editor's Note and Newsbriefs 47:2

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

Editor's Preface and Biographical Note

President's NewsBriefs 47:1

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

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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

Editor's Preface and Biographical Note

President's Newsbriefs 46:3

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

Editor's Preface and Biographical Note

President's Newsbriefs 46:2

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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

Editor's Preface and Biographical Note

President's NewsBriefs 46:1

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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

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California Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 4,

Winter 2019, Edited by Pearl Karrer

Cover Art: Ice Cutting by Pearl Karrer

Editor's Preface and Biographical Note

President's NewsBriefs 45:4

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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 Thoughts- Margaret 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

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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

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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

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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

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California Quarterly 44:1, Spring 2018

Edited by Maja Trochimczyk
Cover Art: Yucca by Abby Diamond

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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

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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

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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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