Isabella Nazari “Grandma Fish” Inspiration piece Grandmother Fish By Georgia VanDerwater Response There once was a grandmother fish Who had pearls and was very stylish. She wore a pink dress Made of satin, no …
Gina Katz collage Inspiration Piece Help Me Kathleen Finn Jordan out of seas of depression and tumultuous history a soul is on its way into peril into need to survive and …
Gina Katz “Breaking Through” Response Behind the Eight Ball by Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration Piece It’s time to break The saw toothed stick that helps you aim is ready The cue, placed behind the …
Photo: Fish Out of Water, Columbus, Ohio 2012, Rebecca Parker INSPIRATION PIECE Angler’s Meditation By Linda M. Rhinehart Neas The water, barely warmed by the rising sun, moves in ripples …
Rebecca Parker – Inspiration Sun and Water Linda M. Rhinehart Neas – Response In the Beginning Out of darkness Came light Out of light Came life Heat rising Droplets forming Thunder lightning Pools gathering Streams flowing Into rivers Into …
Nick Winkworth Response Hospice Donna Kendall Inspiration Piece When she’s rocking in a chair of silence, swaying between now and then, her world may not be silent as she drifts into the …
Isabella Nazari “Glimpse” Response Glimpse By Georgia Ludwig VanDerwater Inspiration piece . I caught a glimpse of a gnome in the pansies Just a glimpse but I saw it quite clear. He appeared to …
Jane Hulstrunk Inspiration piece Dandelion By Marla Deschenes Response Impending wish Whispered softly to tentative seeds And fluff And in a breath To coast on lazy summer’s breeze Carrying softest words through gentle air A nature …
Fork Handle by Judy Weinberg Inspiration SILENCE IN THE CRIB by Marcela Kogan Response Perched side-by-side on a bench in Forest Hills Park in Queens overlooking the cemetery, a …
Boxed In by Judy Weinberg Response Under a Crimson Sunset I Journey to the Heavens by Marcela Kogan Inspiration Piece A cab drops me off at Kennedy airport and …
Lisa Kilhefner Response Sandy Hook by Marla Deschenes Inspiration Piece Did you hear their heartbeats stop? The day that the universe decided To end the innocence That veil that is only lifted for …
Norma Tennis Inspiration piece This Choice By D. James Quinn Response Two trains depart from different origins, their destinations unknown. The one carries a cargo while the other does not. …
Ain’t No Superheroes in Jersey Inspiration Piece by Tyson West The back alley behind my Cousin Vinnie’s pizzeria Smells of grease and malt liquor cans mostly Occasional the smell …
A Screen Door On A Submarine Inspiration Piece by Elizabeth Akin Stelling Is about as useless, as daddy’s telling their kids pilgrims loaded their guns during commercials. How one horse towns …
Inspiration Piece by Tyson West The Prairie Has Evolved Response Piece by Elizabeth Akin Stelling The season for a last ride off Wolf Range pulls an old vaquero from …
‘Dinner In Spain’ by Elizabeth Akin Stelling Inspiration WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE GOOSE As Taught by Sister Erin by Tyson West My children sweet you see ─ All is part …
Nick Winkworth Inspiration Piece Durus He whispers – that the leopard still has spots and the lion has its mane, but the she-wolf can be found no more among all who …
Tora Estep Inspiration piece Crossley Simmons Response “Fondo Blanco” Across Broad narrowed in the skyline is the sidewalk we met. A cobbled market sitting and I thought you saw my eyes. Shut in abandoned …
Mary-Antonia Lombardi The Dream Inspiration piece Ye of Little Faith By Lisa Nielsen Response The endurance of loneliness can be found in the melodious wingspan of an angel, crooning without regard to my joy or …
Mary-Antonia Lombardi Proper Burial Response They Don’t All Deserve Proper Burials By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece they don’t all deserve proper burials: you burn their careful gestures on a barbecue like …
Rhodora Jacob Holding Hands Inspiration piece Indian Burning By Beck Sebenius Response Fingers of light in a dark wrist maze After squeezed pink skin is set all ablaze, From the twisting thumbs, and …
Amy Souza All the things I can’t have/Ladd’s Response Everything By Greg Adkins Inspiration piece Everything. It’s such a simple word, but with such endless possibilities. What is “everything” exactly? For …
Susan Kerr “Start Again” Inspiration piece Start Again By Amy Souza Response Throw everything into the air and watch it scatter like a handful of jacks. Think: I don’t have a life; …
Cynthia Nazari Response Fish Princess By Elizabeth Cordes Inspiration piece Murky sand covers her toes as she looks out over the edge of the world The day is overcast, hot and damp the salt …
Susan Kerr “Remember” Response The Truth About Color By Amy Souza Inspiration piece Blue is the color of because Don’t get caught with buff titanium Denzel Washington swoons for mauve Trump hates all things …