Robin Peace and Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece The Collector By Robin Peace Response I call myself the Collector. I keep mementos, reminders of my conquests. I have to have something to remember them …
Erika Cleveland and Amy Souza
Erika Cleveland and Amy Souza
Erika Cleveland Drawing/collage Response The Yolk of an Egg By Amy Souza Inspiration piece Text from A Dictionary of Psychology Applied generally, the experience of pleasure is entirely different from the real condition No human can avert what …
Daniel Watkins and Marilyn Ackerman
Daniel Watkins and Marilyn Ackerman
Marilyn Ackerman Inspiration piece The Geisha of Pompeii By Daniel D. Watkins Response I saw Moldir Shirinova again in the Kempinksi Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi. She was sitting in …
Emily Clark and Lisa Kilhefner
Emily Clark and Lisa Kilhefner
Emily Clark “Shaking Into Courage” Response Untitled By Lisa Kilhefner Inspiration piece I fill the space (between us) like a whistling wind that sweeps between the buildings of a city but I feel your …
Donna JT Smith
and Alyscia Cunningham
Donna JT Smith
and Alyscia Cunningham
Alyscia Cunningham Inspiration piece I Wear My Heart on My Sleeve By Donna JT Smith Response Some say I should keep My feelings inside; I should be discreet, My feelings denied, Not boldly shown So …
Donna JT Smith
and Alyscia Cunningham
Donna JT Smith
and Alyscia Cunningham
Donna JT Smith Response Journey To Iceland By Alyscia Cunningham Inspiration piece Abela slowly open her eyes to a sky view of beautifully colored dancing clouds. Or so it seemed. …
Amy Souza and Erika Cleveland
Amy Souza and Erika Cleveland
Erika Cleveland Inspiration piece Like That By Amy Souza Response There’s this thing that keeps coming to me in dreams. A yellow mangled baby head with a crooked smile, like …
Casey Bottono and Barbara Esgalhado
Casey Bottono and Barbara Esgalhado
Barbara Esgalhado Inspiration piece Present By Casey Bottono Response Like Buddha at the bodhi tree, I lean in close Trusting the roots, trusting the firm foundation. A gradual process – everything bleeds …
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine “Sirens” Response The Bliss of Luck By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration piece Just before he woke on the day of his 20-year, cancer-free anniversary, Jimmy O’Hara gobbled yet another …
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
Matthew Levine “Compo Beach, Looking North” Inspiration piece The Band Played On By Robert Haydon Jones Response Looking back, Jimmy O’Hara realized there were only a very few times in his …
Terry-Anya Hayes and Jackie Wood
Terry-Anya Hayes and Jackie Wood
Moving Circles No.2 By Jackie Wood Inspiration piece She’s Always Blowing Bubbles By Terry-Anya Hayes Response ……The house …is full of them, all sizes all sun- …shaped, sun- …………..colored ………each ..circle perfect- ly innocent …..this infinity …….of see-through …..wanderers trans- …….fixed no sheen ………………or shiver ……………………to be …
Barbara Black and Tracey Riehl
Barbara Black and Tracey Riehl
Tracey Riehl “Forest Waterfall” Inspiration piece Think of How He Moves By Barbara Black Response NO, IT WAS YOU awash in a violet light, was what he had said, the white …
Seth Leamer and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Seth Leamer and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Seth Leamer “Respite’s Sunset” Digital Collage Response Café Respite By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Cobbled alley café tucked in August in Georgetown lazy feel For years we imagined in quiet and din A …
Barbara Black and Tracey Riehl
Barbara Black and Tracey Riehl
Tracey Riehl “Sunset Boat” Inspiration piece Little Pea By Barbara Black Response I have a pea coat for you. Put it on. No, we will not go to church, my love. We’ll lie …
Kay Syrad and Amy Souza
Kay Syrad and Amy Souza
Amy Souza Painted cloth Inspiration piece In Your Presence By Kay Syrad Response The day you arrived I heard a man say he could turn time into space with twelve bottles of Turkish …
Jonathan Ottke and Mary Lucas
Jonathan Ottke and Mary Lucas
Jonathan Ottke Response In Remembrance of Tilly By Mary Lucas Inspiration piece There are a few places from my past I visit in my mind and heart when I’m looking …
Anne Nowselski and Brian MacDonald
Anne Nowselski and Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald Inspiration Piece Superpower By Anne Nowselski Response I would not like to turn into a bird. But I would fly. It would be so wonderful to step out my window and …
Kamika Cooper and Robin R. Peace
Kamika Cooper and Robin R. Peace
Kamika Cooper “Becoming Literate” Digital Illustration Response #149 By Robin R. Peace Inspiration piece A few hours ago Something was nestled in my womb It started off small I never really noticed it at all But then …
Robin R. Peace and Kamika Cooper
Robin R. Peace and Kamika Cooper
Kamika Cooper “Soul Survivor” Digital Illustration Inspiration piece Sole Survivor By Robin R. Peace Response Is it a victory if you’re the only one of your species left? I was of a …
Brian MacDonald and Julia Rolfe
Brian MacDonald and Julia Rolfe
Brian MacDonald response Standing Julia Rolfe Inspiration piece Sometimes I ponder How we both stood on this cliff. You jumped. and I stood at the edge, pondering. I stand still and stand, and stand, and jump back two steps falling …
Lisa Pimental and
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Lisa Pimental and
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Lisa Pimental “Foozle” Response The Ballad of Jeremy One Sock By KJ Hannah Greenberg Inspiration piece Jeremy One Sock leaned forward a bit in order to lick his left front paw. …
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Lisa Pimental
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Lisa Pimental
Lisa Pimental Inspiration piece Geraniums By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Albert paid double to rent the foam machine, which fashioned artificial clouds, over the weekend. The crazy cost didn’t matter …
Jackie Wood and Terry-Anya Hayes
Jackie Wood and Terry-Anya Hayes
Jackie Wood Response Battery Failing By Terry-Anya Hayes Inspiration piece This may be your last pome from me instrument panel growing dim motor coughing out a shape-note hymn passenger on board looking mad, drawing sword ice …
Tracey Riehl and
Barbara Lynne Black
Tracey Riehl and
Barbara Lynne Black
Tracey Riehl Response The Plot By Barbara Lynne Black Inspiration piece On a May day full of the thrum of bees, when a corpse might sit up from its grave …
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Seth Leamer
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Seth Leamer
Seth Leamer “Smoker” Inspiration piece Smoker Blues Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Weathered face and sunken eyes Wrinkled brow and smoke that flies Up, about and in your face Fingers nicotine coated trace What’s your story …