Bridget Fahey O’Brien Morning After Inspiration Piece After the Carriage Returns to a Pumpkin By Annmarie Lockhart Response at the peak of the party at half-past midnight it’s easy to forget that morning comes moaning …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien They Come Out at Night Response What Poe Might Have Creatively Interpreted Had He Been Born Some 50 Years Later and Known Something of Whitechapel By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration …
Diane Mayr Gettin’ Jiggy Response This Really Happened By Amy Souza Inspiration piece On the road to Damascus by the red-lipped rover, Alfred Hitchcock sits down to picnic with the actor …
Waiting — RESPONSE by Seth Leamer (Oil on Canvas) Waiting — INSPIRATION by Brenna Crotty That there man, there’s something wrong with him. I been workin’ my whole life on them …
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas – Response Yin and Yang (Photo – Nikon Coolpix 4300 and photo enhanced with Gimp) Robert James McCoog – Inspiration Untitled He fell. As he fell he …
Seth Leamer Inspiration Piece Learning to Sleep Alone Brenna Crotty Response Piece We are haunted by the living. They drift among the trees when the moonlight’s unforgiving of our clinging memories. They drift among …
Tora Estep La Traicionada Cartas intolerables rodean su cabeza se convierten en alas electrocutadas en albanicos de hueso que se despliegan frente de sus ojos ahora de plata helada que reflejan …
Aimee Fullman Shell Shaped Spiral Staircase photograph: Inspiration Piece Shell Shaped Spiral Staircase Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Deep wave shell thrown upward to float in foam or throw idea To …
Tora Estep Inspiration Piece The Dreamer by Michelle Wallace Response piece The sun sets Submerging into icy blue Ripples swallow orange and red and pink Wind swirls the trees A white orb peeks through …
Kristi Conley-Brockie Feather and Whorl Pen pencil on paper Response DONDUKOV BOULEVARD By Gabriel Shanks Inspiration piece No more hiding. We can fall away, slip from sight, even in the middle of the …
Traci Robison Sienna Boy Inspiration piece Boy Playing By Caroline Davies Response Boy playing Go out and play, my parents were forever saying. You need more fresh air. You have to be …
Michelle Wallace Inspiration piece Letting Go By Helen Lewis Response (Click to view larger version)
Traci Robison dulce et decorum est Response November 4th By Caroline Davies Inspiration piece There’s your friend He said he’d stab you in the leg to stop you going back to the front. You …
Helen Lewis Blood in the gutter Response Anthony Valade Gutter Water Inspiration piece Eyes caught a glimpse of nothing as everything turned black. Ran for days not thinking of the past. Lost fears …
Susan Bee Heart Response Identity By Marla Deschenes Inspiration piece The slumlords thought the poor people wouldn’t notice If they postponed trash collection a few weeks Poor people don’t care If their asphalt backyard Smells …
Jane Hulstrunk Untitled Response Piece Irene Plax Lagoon Inspiration Piece Water rippled outward and the mermaid’s face came to the surface first. Next her arms, long and graceful and pale green. …
Jane Hulstrunk Untitled Inspiration Piece Irene Plax Sunbathing Response Piece If she was lucky, she could get in a whole hour. The mermaid humped her body onto a low, flat rock …
Jules Rolfe On Wings, Petals, & Toes Response Pregnant with Joy by KJ Hannah Greenberg Inspiration Piece Banners of happiness slip, iridescent nacre, Between aureate columns, muguet de bois, Pikaki. Our personal adytons …
Jules Rolfe Inspiration Piece Patterning with Holes By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Openwork fabric, patterned with holes, like many friendships, Adds zing, zest, notice, accent, perhaps umph to life’s daily dress. Whereas …
Tora Estep, pastel on paper Response Paralysina By Crossley A. Simmons Inspiration piece There is no allegro in a child’s dream pirouetted accident. Tutu discipline drowns pink and now I am abled less than. To …
Diane Mayr Tears Response Sarah Priestman In Remembrance: Shall We Dance? Inspiration piece This is the day most children fear. Here I stand, 58 years old, but on this day I …
Lisa Nielsen “Unravel” Inspiration piece Unravel By Uma Gowrishankar Response Spine ………bends back to touch the ground. Sky is the face of sea. Block of waves between ribs of concrete prints on my skirt ……………..as empty space. Words crowd in …
Uma Gowrishankar –Slant of the Sun Inspiration Piece Christina Brockett- The Collector Response Piece The pink lady stood, her perfectly manicured cotton candy colored clapboards stretched between arms of …
Uma Gowrishankar- Dragonfly Response piece Christina Brockett- Dragonfly Inspiration piece I drift on the air. Again, I search for you. There you are, standing alone by the water. The breeze …