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01 Jun

Eve Hyde and Amy Souza

Eve Hyde and Amy Souza

Eve Hyde Response Time and Its Kin By Amy Souza Inspiration piece High noon, no shadow: How you know when a duel begins A street lamp at midnight: How you know …

 
By Amy Souza
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14 Dec

Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley

Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley

Cristal Brawley Inspiration piece How the Heart Works By Amy Souza Response You hear tapping on hardwood like the dog still exists. Wind shattered the night – rumbled windows, swung porch …

 
By Amy Souza
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14 Dec

Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza

Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza

Cristal Brawley Response Tourist Town By Amy Souza Inspiration piece They haven’t solved the murder, Judy tells me. No one knows what happened but they assume the boy rode out …

 
By Amy Souza
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15 Sep

Amy Souza and Ash Martins

Amy Souza and Ash Martins

Amy Souza Response Grief Is Part I By Ash Martins Inspiration piece Time slows down, stops entirely, then somehow starts again in the moments you transition from this life to your next Grief is so unbelievably heavy It …

 
By Amy Souza
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15 Sep

Amy Souza and Kathleen Finn Jordan

Amy Souza and Kathleen Finn Jordan

Amy Souza Response August Strokes By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Slipping into the liquid aqua glassed pool These are the days of leisure swims Summer season — autumn of life The swish …

 
By Amy Souza
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15 Sep

Heather Hartman and Amy Souza

Heather Hartman and Amy Souza

Heather Hartman Response Orbit By Amy Souza Inspiration piece Everywhere is here and there and nowhere you can be at once Like those signs with seven arrows pointing every which way Big town – Small town – The moon – You …

 
By Amy Souza
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12 Sep

Ash Martins and Amy Souza

Ash Martins and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Inspiration piece To the Buoy, and Beyond By Ash Martins Response If I swim to the buoy, I’ll have someplace to hold onto, if I want. But, I …

 
By Amy Souza
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10 Sep

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Amy Souza

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Inspiration piece Alone with the Sea By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response piece Alone with the sea, the warm sand massaging the feet From the wonder wander of the traveling …

 
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01 Jun

Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza

Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza

Cristal Brawley Response No One Said a Pandemic Would Feel This Lonely By Amy Souza Inspiration piece TV people on a TV blanket watch TV stars then break into song Absence …

 
By Amy Souza
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01 Jun

Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley

Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley

Cristal Brawley Inspiration piece Talking to the Dead By Amy Souza Response 1. They don’t care about salmonberries or our fear of needles overcome. We hope they miss us but …

 
By Amy Souza
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05 Mar

Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza

Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza

Cristal Brawley Response Beheld By Amy Souza Inspiration piece If beauty belongs to the beholder, what’s left for the beheld? 1. This body’s good for drawing, I suppose—curves, wrinkles, dimples, fat. …

 
By Amy Souza
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05 Mar

Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley

Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley

Cristal Brawley Inspiration piece Attachments By Amy Souza Response We sit together Cross-legged, entwined And I want to know your secrets Isn’t that why we’re here? These entanglements? You don’t need answers Or to understand the …

 
By Amy Souza
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04 Oct

Amy Souza and Jennifer Fendya

Amy Souza and Jennifer Fendya

Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece Tender Perennial By Amy Souza Response In one of her last voicemails before she died, my mother said, “I’m lonely. I want to go home.” My …

 
By Amy Souza
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10 Sep

Amy Souza and Ash Martins

Amy Souza and Ash Martins

Amy Souza Watercolor mixed media on reporter notebook paper Response “Pass the Jelly!” By Ash Martins Inspiration piece Say, wouldn’t it be swell if we humans sat a spell and hummed like the bees but danced like the …

 
By Amy Souza
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10 Sep

Ash Martins and Amy Souza

Ash Martins and Amy Souza

Ash Martins Psychic Bleed Out Response One Eye Open By Amy Souza Inspiration piece Ultimately we all grieve alone The pain of seclusion Historical lack Nothing feels good California’s on fire and Losses just keep coming I …

 
By Amy Souza
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10 Sep

Ash Martins and Amy Souza

Ash Martins and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Inspiration piece A New Kind Of Playground By Ash Martins Response Dicky couldn’t wait for bedtime. He even drummed up a couple of ideas to see if …

 
By Amy Souza
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10 Sep

Jennifer Fendya and Amy Souza

Jennifer Fendya and Amy Souza

Jennifer Fendya Response One Eye Open By Amy Souza Inspiration piece Ultimately we all grieve alone The pain of seclusion Historical lack Nothing feels good California’s on fire and Losses just keep coming I have accomplished …

 
By Amy Souza
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05 Sep

Amy Souza and Ash Martins

Amy Souza and Ash Martins

Ash Martins “Recurrence” Digital oil on canvas Inspiration piece North Coast Overlook By Amy Souza Response Ribbons of azure sky Float on a painterly tide While blackfish jump into the horizon Of an everlasting ocean Hint …

 
By Amy Souza
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14 Jun

Kamika Cooper and Amy Souza

Kamika Cooper and Amy Souza

Amy Souza photography Inspiration piece   Overcast By Kamika Cooper Response “What are you doing here?” Gretchen sat cross-legged, making swirls in the sand with her fingers. She had been sitting peacefully at …

 
By Kamika Cooper
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13 Jun

Robert Haydon Jones
and Amy Souza

Robert Haydon Jones
and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Inspiration piece Me and Mary Lou By Robert Haydon Jones Response I want to tell you how Mary Lou and I got together but I warn you this …

 
By Amy Souza
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30 May

Amy Souza and Jenny Forrester

Amy Souza and Jenny Forrester

Amy Souza Response Jenny Forrester Inspiration piece My brother and I loved Johnny Cash, singing Ring of Fire. Loud. Over and over. It’s decades later now. We grew apart in …

 
By Amy Souza
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30 May

Jenny Forrester and Amy Souza

Jenny Forrester and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Inspiration piece Jenny Forrester Response I wish you would’ve listened while I was water and you were sand. It hurt to fly into the center alone, to …

 
By Amy Souza
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13 Mar

Amy Souza and
Cathy Stevens Pratt

Amy Souza and
Cathy Stevens Pratt

Cathy Stevens Pratt Inspiration piece Here to There By Amy Souza Response Can you get from here to there? Abandon that tree limb For the next phase Grass to sky to building to …

 
By Amy Souza
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13 Mar

Cathy Stevens Pratt
and Amy Souza

Cathy Stevens Pratt
and Amy Souza

Cathy Stevens Pratt Response Mind of Bees By Amy Souza Inspiration piece You must have a mind of bees To keep you company on quiet days That stretch unending toward decades alone Your …

 
By Amy Souza
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04 Dec

Amy Souza and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Amy Souza and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Amy Souza “Trail Closed” Response Covidian Dreams By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece As the isolation and distancing young tree like grows ……and burgeons spitting flowers of solitary time into lysoled air The …

 
By Amy Souza
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