​PHOTO ESSAY  -  
         Ironies and Incongruities
                              Our Gated Community   -   photo by MJ Moore                                  

INTERESTING GARDEN SCENES
​​By MJ Moore

Incongruities are everywhere. Sometimes a stroll through our neighborhoods provides unexpected laughter and joy.  We humans are an odd, wonderful, and fun lot. 
Welcome to our gated community!
Where Storm Troopers climb trees.
Where fig trees hide in barrels. 
Where socks grow on corn stalks.  
And even the pine trees are happy! 
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​​MJ Moore lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her various incarnations have included technical writer and editor, grassroots environmental activist, first grade teacher, poet and flash fiction writer, wife, and mother. Strongly bicoastal, she thrives on salt air, wind and waves, but also loves mountains, deserts, forests and streams. Writing, for her, is a source of vision and joy. Her poem, “Cello Suite,” was previously published in Bach in the Afternoon, Poems from the Blue Light Press Summer 2018 Workshop.
Other works in this issue:
Poetry:
​Fallow Season
Magpie

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Vistas & Byways Review is the semiannual journal of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by members of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at San Francisco State University​.​
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