Cheryl Lavoie Response Bookmarks By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Bookmark the moment Bookmark the page Bookmark the budget Bookmark the rage Bookmark the war, the hunger, the pain Bookmark the earthquake, tsunami, flood rain Bookmark …
Cheryl Lavoie Inspiration piece Superimposed By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Layering your needs over mine can’t succeed. I refuse to allege our coupling’s “beautiful.” As well, reframing our feelings to disfigure Sincere images …
Jacalyn Carley Inspiration piece Beheld (The Girl Who Couldn’t Eat Cake) By Amy Souza Response The artist’s eye brimmed with hips because I liked the air large It hadn’t occurred to me before I …
Tora Estep Response August by Kathleen Jordan Inspiration piece These lingering beach days Sun bathing the body caressing the skin and Kissing the limbs grow short As the perfume of summer, of brightly …
Marilyn Ackerman Dancing Response Dancing By Diane Mayr Inspiration piece Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common …
Helen Lewis Inspiration piece Eagle By Michelle Vanstrom Response Eagle You flew in front of my car today, created a visual intersection of liner journey and a horizontal sightline over the …
Untitled By Helen Lewis Response Old Money By Michelle Vanstrom Inspiration piece When I bought the old coins my mother collected I always thought I’d give them back. She called it collateral for the mortgage money, …
Cat Burglar Erika Schnatz Line Art Inspiration Piece We Saw You Coming Kamika Cooper Response we saw you coming quickly stepping lively with all those ill begotten riches stolen gold, rubies, time, minds, and …
Tora Estep Inspiration Piece The Red Coat Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Apprehensive called into service surprisingly guest lecturer to an incoming freshman class I look at myself in the mirror and wonder If …
Jacalyn Carley Response Made with fresh lavender, wind, ink, oil pastels Size: 24 x 13 ” Housesitting for Buddhists By Amy Souza Inspiration piece Outside, two spiders spin webs on either end of …
Tisha Carter “enthusiasm of a blue dog” Response I Don’t Scream By Donna JT Smith Inspiration piece I’d like a treat If you don’t mind; I’d like the kind That you would eat. Not just …
Cynthia Nazari Inspiration piece The Cat’s Meow By Sophia Carter-Peters Response “Order Up!!” Janice yells, her groovy-shoed feet never resting as she whizzes back and forth along the chrome bar. She …
Colors and Spaces The spaces between our words are always there Two can never be one Even a child born must leave her mother’s oneness And at that moment, …
Lisa Kilhefner Response Mama Maria By Jackie Fishman Inspiration piece There are many reasons to go to Spain, thought Abby as she zipped up her toiletries case. Climb the steps …
Diane Mayr Distance Response My Own Light By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece Got my own light an internal flame that emanates heat through touch and sound increasing my cipher’s temperature by 180 degrees and …
Tisha Carter Inspiration Piece Beach Girl by Donna JT Smith Response ocean giggles as she wiggles gnarled stick at waves that lick her toes, and splash her words, and crash so near can’t hear she blows a kiss I …
Elizabeth Dougherty “Time to Strike” Response Ed Burns By Amy Souza Inspiration piece Would you know him if you passed on the sidewalk? The way you can spot Quebecois even before they …
“Butterfly Palm” by Marilyn Ackerman Mixed media on canvas Response to: Asiatic Arecas, inspiration piece By © KJ Hannah (Channie) Greenberg Asiatic arecas, all lambent in the sun, Tall stepstools to celestial …
“Hela” paper collage by Marilyn Ackerman. Inspiration piece for poem by Channie Greenberg Hela By © KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Hela has birds for brains. Penguins, really. They sit Upon her noggin, …
Amanda C. Brainerd Response Origin Story By Michelle Greco Inspiration piece I’m from a neighborhood where kids put you in a schoolyard headlock in third grade. I’m from stained glass. Jesus looks down on …
Jonathan Ottke “Thanksgiving Moon” Response A Very Special “Thanks” Giving By Cheryl Somers Aubin Inspiration piece “No,” I told my sister when she called the other day, “we’re still waiting.” Waiting for …
Jonathan Ottke Reflections glass Inspiration piece A Sign By Cheryl Somers Aubin Response As I look for a sign from my father I wonder… Will it be a white feather from an …
Geraniums Lisa Pimental Acrylic on wood Inspiration piece Paths We Laid Kamika Cooper Response we used to be linear raised up from the village seeds our great-grandmothers spat we were bathed in Spring rains …
Done Lisa Pimental Acrylic on wood Response Can’t Say Love Kamika Cooper Inspiration Can’t say that another has ever made me feel this way I float on hopes and dreams of her like …
Amy Tingle Response Honey Tangerine By Hildie Block Inspiration piece Irene, the 12 year-old granddaughter of Holocaust survivors takes some risks in an orange grove with a boy named Jesse. “Opa, …