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Lisa Bloom and Tora Estep

Tora Estep “Ruddy Crow” Inspiration piece Night Mood By Lisa Bloom Response I listen for his coos and wait for oxygen. He signals his next move, then I’m at peace again. Then he turns on …

Tora Estep “Golden Cocoon” Acrylic on paper Response Morning Plea By Lisa Bloom Inspiration piece I skipped my morning lecture, you were wrapped within my golden quilt’s cocoon, I chose to stay there too. …

Darice Jones and Quinzee the Artist

Quinzee the Artist “When the Giants Cam0” Pencil drawing Response Free New World for The Formerly Oppressed By Darice Jones Inspiration piece It wasn’t until the ancestors of all the world’s people …

Quinzee the Artist and Darice Jones

Quinzee the Artist “Reflected” Digital painting Inspiration piece Both By Darice Jones Response I am your tether and your balm Source energy is clever that way 7 billion plus mirror-souls on this blue orb Looking …

Angi Lewis and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Inspiration piece Sky Lines By Angi Lewis Response 1. I sometimes imagine the birds leaving tracks in the sky, a network of crisscrossed lines marking their flight through such a vast, blank space. 2. In the …

Rachel Lahn and Stefanie A. Shilling

Rachel Lahn Mixed media with beach glass on wood Response In Her Head By Stefanie A. Shilling Inspiration piece on the back wall between her left ear and her right ear she positioned …

Ray Sharp and Jennifer Fendya

Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece Aurora By Ray Sharp Response You trudge through the coldest hour in that nightly red-brick canyon where fears and worries are warehoused behind arrays of blank-faced windows until the sudden …

Jennifer Fendya and Ray Sharp

Jennifer Fendya Response The Old Gods By Ray Sharp Inspiration piece The old gods speak through the crow in the tree, the tongue of the flame, the wind that stirs the ashes, but I …

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Missy Lambert

All of Us Missy Lambert Acrylic paints and colored pencils on birch wood panel Inspiration piece All of Us By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Fused and linked and born and died Blood and bones …

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Jonathan Ottke

Jonathan Ottke Inspiration piece Acorns’ Circumflexes By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Nature’s diacritics often are expressed using fallen leaves, scattered seeds, Detritus that was once proximate, sloughed bark. Heed these prominences! Inter …

Stefanie A. Shilling and Rachel Lahn

Rachel Lahn Inspiration piece One Page to Fill a Life By Stefanie A. Shilling Response some only get as far as the title some a few stanzas some empty every ink bottle grind …

Julie Christensen and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Julie Christensen Response Haunting Landscape By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Laid out, sprawling and dotted, once choked with trees The spits left after the logging …..punctuate the melancholic presence with …

Tracy Burkholder and Kate Copeland

Tracy Burkholder Response White Lavender By Kate Copeland Inspiration piece When my heavy heart carries away on heavy legs; when I am just unable to think beyond winter, where leafless love combines the cold …

Brian MacDonald and Andrea Dye

Brian MacDonald Response Andrea Dye Inspiration piece white horse Kermit chews whiskers twitch in fresh clover green muzzle – full soul —————————————————— Note: All of the art, writing, and music on this site …

Andrea Dye and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece Andrea Dye Response Respectful of nature, Children build away from danger. Jumping in, now protected. Perhaps a middle way. Is our nature to defy Mother? C’est la vie. —————————————————— Note: All of …

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Julie Christensen

Julie Christensen Inspiration piece Wide Open Wonder By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response The slopes and angles kiss the eye The light and shadow taunts The sparseness hungers for colors bright To bathe, enliven …

Jennifer Fendya and Stefanie A. Shilling

Jennifer Fendya “Alas, she loved them more” Response No Room Left For Me By Stefanie A. Shilling Inspiration piece it started with a few photos on the dresser the record playing knick-knacks filled the …

Stefanie A. Shilling and Jennifer Fendya

Jennifer Fendya “…an open gate” Inspiration piece Open Endings By Stefanie A. Shilling Response she lived alone now her children long grown lured away to the bright lights of the big city her husband …

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Marilyn Ackerman

Marilyn Ackerman Inspiration piece Of Books and Libraries By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response “MooMaw, tell me a story.” “Sure.” “Tell me about libraries.” “Well, I’ve long been something of an anorak.” “A parka?” “No, a …

Marilyn Ackerman
and KJ Hannah Greenberg

Marilyn Ackerman Response One-Eyed, Long-Nosed, Espying Rooftop Pigeon Eater By KJ Hannah Greenberg Inspiration piece As soon as Harriet entered the building, she headed to the seventh floor. There, on the …

Tora Estep and Ash Martins

Tora Estep Acrylic paint on paper Response A Sorry Scoop By Ash Martins Inspiration piece You abandoned us like a stray ice cream scoop dropped on a picnic table at the park Sticky, …

KJ Hannah Greenberg and Upasana Mitter

Upasana Mitter “Negative (Black) – Watercolour and Pencil” Inspiration Piece Noesis By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Activity of the nous, that is, intellectual pursuits, seem Like davits forever reaching for belongings gone …

Kamika Cooper and Channie Greenberg

Channie Greenberg “Access Denied” Inspiration piece Just Trippin By Kamika Cooper Response i began a trip without a destination or clear direction criss-crossing highways navigating one way streets just looking for you i looked in churches and sat …

Stefanie A. Shilling and Angi Lewis

Stefanie A. Shilling Inspiration piece Dimpled By Angi Lewis Response Dimpled like goose pimples on flesh like the bumps on a dog’s snout where the whiskers sprout from like the rind of an orange or …

Angi Lewis and Stefanie A. Shilling

Angi Lewis Inspiration piece Handle with Care By Stefanie A. Shilling Response it’s forever been true that the land holds the sea and there’s no truer feeling than when your hands hold me —————————————————— Note: …