California State Poetry Society: CQ 2018-2022

CALIFORNIA QUARTERLY IN 2018-2022

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

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS
California Quarterly, Volume 46, Number 2

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

California Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 1, Spring 2020

Edited by Margaret Saine

Cover Art: Manoscritto di una vita 2018 (Manuscript of a Lifetime) by Enzo Patti

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

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

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THE CALIFORNIA QUARTERLY IN 2018

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

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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

California State Poetry Society

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CQ 2018-2022

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