CQ 2018-2022

 CALIFORNIA QUARTERLY  IN 2018-2022

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                     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

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

Editor's Note and Newsbriefs 47:2

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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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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

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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

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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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THE CALIFORNIA QUARTERLY IN 2019

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

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

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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

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