Katie Helms and Heidi Mordhorst
Katie Helms
Spring
watercolor, sumi ink, graphite on paper
Inspiration piece
loop fling shroud
By Heidi Mordhorst
Response
clouds of birds swoop
separately together, evening
wing tips crowding loudly
— dark leaves on twigs
seeping spring …
Heidi Mordhorst and Katie Helms
Katie Helms
Secret Sounds
Response
Listen With Your Eyes
By Heidi Mordhorst
Inspiration piece
“I can sing the Alphabet Song in silent language.”
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Listen with Your Eyes
Secret clutched in a closed fist:
If …
Pharoah Bolding and Blaine Klitzke
Oregon Coast – Newport Beach. Photo taken by Pharoah Bolding.
Blaine Klitzke – Double Falcon Summer (Click for MP3)
Inspiration piece
Beach Comber
By Pharoah Bolding
Response
He always enjoyed the …
Brenna Crotty and
Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald
Inspiration piece
Spark
By Brenna Crotty
Response
Because he didn’t leave any Personal Belongings at the flat,
We have no hairbrushes or notebooks, or soccer jerseys from university,
Or love letters to …
Lynne Elizabeth Heiser
and Tim O’Kane
Lynne Elizabeth Heiser
For the Love You Know
Mixed Media on Canvas
Response
The Love You Know
By Tim O’Kane
Inspiration piece
There’s no love like new love – the true romantic’s …
Tim O’Kane and
Lynne Elizabeth Heiser
Lynne Elizabeth Heiser
A La Luce
Mixed Media on Canvas
Inspiration piece
Troublous Dreams
By Tim O’Kane
Response
“This man is walking to work, same way as always, and he crosses Wielhe …
Cristal Guderjahn
and Jan Irene Miller
Jan Irene Miller
Inspiration piece
Cristal Guderjahn
Response
“Turn left.”
He had turned right.
He had turned right to avoid the onramp.
Her sense of direction had typically caused him to imagine …
Irene Plax and Tora Estep
Tora Estep
Sumptuous Bird, oil on canvas
Inspiration piece
Irene Plax
Response
Ms. Marimba was sent in to be the Kindergarten co-teacher, but unfortunately for her, Miss D was there …
Yebyul Oh and
Elizabeth Akin Stelling
Yebyul Oh
Response
Small Knots
By Elizabeth Akin Stelling
Inspiration piece
Each time my hands ran
through your locks trying
to comb out restlessness
my fingers would stop
in your tiny strands watching
blown …
Elizabeth Akin Stelling
and Yebyul Oh
Yebyul Oh
Inspiration piece
Everything Is Beautiful To A Little Girl
By Elizabeth Akin Stelling
Response
Young eyes scan the unfamiliar room
moving over black upon black
toward curve of the shoulder
as …
Kathleen Jordan and Nicholas Clark
Nicholas Clark
seasonsEND
Response piece
Kathleen Jordan
Seasons End
Inspiration piece
Sparkling bubbling Chrystal like water
Stroke
Nicholas Clark and Marcela Horness
Marcela Horness
Untitled
Inspiration piece
Nicholas Clark
Brothers
Response piece
our arms sway earnestly like candle flames
we pine for PEZ, sticky Kraft singles, pizza flavoured Pringles
we croak like frogs, slump into …
Brian MacDonald and Nina Simon
Brian MacDonald
Response
Nina Simon
Inspiration piece
Ladies of the Night
You were no lady
just an abandoned kid
from the back streets of Glasgow
while I never knew starvation
nor lacked a mother’s …
Katie Helms and Robbi Nester
Katie Helms
Response
My Memory Palace
By Robbi Nester
Inspiration piece
The ancients found remembering was simple
if they built in memory a place to stash
each name or fact. I have …
Lisa Reutzel and Sandy Coleman
Sandy Coleman
Inspiration Piece
Starry Night
By Lisa Reutzel
Response
I still remember the first time I ever saw the stars. I was twelve years old. I know what you’re …
Russ McIntosh and
Robert Haydon Jones
Russ McIntosh
Dual Vistas
Digital Photo Illustration
Response
Blue Sky
By Robert Haydon Jones
Inspiration piece
I want to lie. I want to say they didn’t off that blue sky.
That yesterday morning when …
Blain Klitzke and Daryl Morazzini
Art response by Blain Klitzke
Story by Daryl Morazzini
Granny Moons
Although poor mountain ministers were not the sort of boys her family would have wished her to …
Blain Klitzke and Pharoah Bolding
Blain_Klitzke-Boss_Fight(Click for MP3)
Response
Pharoah Bolding
Inspiration piece
You would think that after years of fighting men twice her size that Adelaide Primm would have encountered everything a man …
Loring Resler and Robin Peace
Loring Resler
Response
#31
By Robin Peace
Inspiration piece
In the cold fathoms of my soul
I know what’s right
But I run and hide
For fear the pain will encompass me
In …
Robin Peace and Loring Resler
Loring Resler
Inspiration Piece
My Forbidden Love
By Robin Peace
Response
I close my eyes. My mind is alive with white-hot neon light. I open my eyes and the light …
Sandy Coleman and Marla Deschenes
Sandy Coleman
Inspiration Piece
Sundance/Moondance
Response
by Marla Deschenes
There were days when we danced for the sun
There were days we danced for the moon
When our differences were what made …
Tora Estep and Irene Plax
Tora Estep
Response
Gain Muscle! Twelve Workouts for a Slimmer, More Energetic You! 5 Workday Meals to get you through the week!
It was too early for Allison …
Gabby Holden
and Hildie S. Block
Gabby Holden
Response
(Click for larger image)
N.O.M.E.
By Hildie Block
Inspiration piece
“That was the best game we’ve ever had!” Her eyes were shining as the setting sun …
Charles Waters
and Sandy Coleman
Sandy Coleman
Inspiration piece
The Color Spectrum
By Charles Waters
Response
Galumphing in the wild after morning showers
An elephant gets sucked into a rainbow colored vortex.
Mutation begins …
Ears: Fuchsia …
Tyson West and Rusty Lynn
Rusty Lynn
Response
ORIGINAL SIN SIGNALS
Tyson West
If Jesus was god and knew everything
Then why didn’t he tell us some parable
About cosmic background radiation
Left over from the Big …