Brian MacDonald Response Paul Hunter Inspiration piece Whenever Archangels are slumming, they like to play Jazz. Gabriel, of course, plays trumpet and Michael plays saxophone. Raphael plays bass, And Uriel plays the drums. I guess …
She walks both worlds by Caroline Davies Response She walks the red earth, her bare feet connect to the land. She throws a whip of stars across the dark sky, draws lines …
Nocturne, Saugutuck River Matthew Levine Inspiration The Gloaming By Robert Haydon Jones Response “You can’t beat this view,” Paul Robinson said. “I can see up and down the river right from …
Point of No Return Matthew Levine Response The Good Nazi By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration The Weekapaug Inn is gone now. It stood on the shore of a secluded cove near …
Landscape Mixed Media on Canvas Paula B. Lantz Inspiration Piece The Water Tower The Water Tower in our town is cotton candy blue. It looks down on my neighborhood. It watches what we …
Boulders in my Heart Paula B. Lantz Response White Fields I hike these white fields uncertain what I’ll find under boulders in my heart in the treehouse of my mind. I hike these …
JIM TRETICK Inspiration Golden Paradise by Gary Hewitt Response I’ve never come across a ghost ship before, let alone two. We stand and listen. There is no sound except …
In Two Minds by Val Bonney Response Once A Beauty by Maggie Daniel Caldwell Jane pushed aside the overgrown tangle of passion vine and willow branches to reach the woman’s …
Jack Hernandez Untitled By Marla Deschenes How do words become feelings? These sounds of self-expression falling from my lips. How does this cacophony of phrasing make any sense Against The burning of …
Anne Marie Perconti charcoal on canvas Inspiration Hollow at the Core Cara Moulds Response I am A pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floor In death’s other kingdom Of my own design For I And …
Cara Moulds, Soul Mates, photograph Response Soul Mates Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration Ambush of the self In rush of blood and thump of heart Breathless moments frenzied All a unique part Of the love …
Geraldine Ayers Holding Onto Fog Response Lisa Nielsen Inspiration Piece things i should have said i should have told you that there is a web of lies masquerading as veins beneath my skin and …
Geraldine Ayers Untitled Inspiration Piece Lisa Nielsen Response what’s left of remorse when nothing was left you always found something else to take music once vibrated on my skin, but rhapsody-white strings bind me …
Sandy Coleman Inspiration piece Ray Sharp Response Calypso By Ray Sharp Cerulean blue hat in a tangerine sky, My pussy cat my chocolate cream pie. Orange sliced fat-a-ways segments clock the hours, Chopin polonaise slow dance …
Caroline A. Evey Inspiration piece Life Insurance Hildie S. Block Response Howard Tao who speaks slowly and with a “cured” stutter’s affectation asks me when I will die. That’s not exactly …
VESPA by BRIAN MACDONALD Vesper by Athena Dixon Response Across the square a stout brown leg swung up and over the seat of the Vespa. Fluttering in the breeze her skirt, …
Kristi Conley-Brockie Once Upon a Bow-Wow Inspiration piece A Sonnet from a Dog to His Mistress Lisa Eldridge Response How long before I met you did I long To hear your gentle …
Cara Moulds Carefree photograph Inspiration Piece Carefree Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Tickle the feet samba in footbath salty sweet Setting sun capturing the mood of a perfect day hanging on Not to be …
Judy Weinberg Inspiration Grace Burns Waiting for Eureka Response Waiting for outer layers to whither away, to expose life anew. Waiting for the moment when fear of everything evaporates into nothing. Waiting …
Katie Helms Inspiration Piece Lisa Kilhefner Response Piece exhalation She rubs her silhouette against the fog, and begs the grey to smear some hint of dawn. She mouths the words; her mumbled …
Pharoah Bolding Response The baby was passed out in the stroller, head back, mouth open, not nearly as funny as when adults do it. The man who had …
Judy Weinberg Response Rainbow Spotting By Grace Burns Inspiration Piece Prismatic droplets arch above the eastern sky I chant ancient incantations long dormant uttered last by my girl ghost. Note: All of the art, writing, and …
Big E 2011 by Diane Mayr Inspiration piece Carnival Provocations by Channie Greenberg Response piece Carnival Provocations Carnival provocations, very harpy-like, beckon via cotton candy sweetness, The smell of doughnuts, impossibly deep-fried pickles, …
Frank Cianciotti Response Lisa Nielsen Inspiration Piece Memorialized (Again) we zigzagged thru traffic your gasoline breath over bursting knuckles anxious to get to the memorial like it was a disney ride parents told children not …
Frank Cianciotti Inspiration Piece Lisa Nielsen Response: adrift again i scattered you into the ocean to say good-bye and then came back to find you i expected you to be waiting but i can’t …