Jules Rolfe and Connie Begg
Connie Begg
Inspiration Piece
Jules Rolfe
Response
Boundless
Where the horizon met the vastless sea
We were lost
Drowning in all directions
Even the strong among us
Could only tread so long
Before phosphorescent swimmers
In …
Su Baccino and Sukia
Too bright!
A place of runaway thoughts
scary
shrieking clashing shades –
mum.
A severed horse’s head
amongst gentle ferns, bows,
dots and salty seaweed –
I hear the sea, but don’t see.
Too …
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas and Anthony Valade
“Joined”
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Response
Photo taken with Nikon Coolpix 4300
Digitally enhanced with Gimp
Stratified by Anthony Valade
Inspiration Piece
This frigid aroma fills the air with peace and lost …
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas and Heidi Mordhorst
“Tub” by Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Response
Photo taken with Nikon Coolpix 4300
Digitally enhanced with Gimp
Side by Side in the Outhouse by Heidi Mordhorst
Inspiration piece
One night late …
Amanda Miska and Cinthia Lozano
Cinthia Lozano
Self-Deceit
Inspiration Piece
Jezebel
by Amanda Miska
Response
Who’s seen Jezebel?/She was born to be the woman we could blame/Make me beast half as brave/I’d be the same… …
Katie Helms and Lisa Kilhefner
Kathryn Helms Empty/Full: …
Bob Moore and Su Baccino
The People vs Leon Fitch
I like to think I’m providing a service to the community. I find materials no longer in use and take …
Matthew Levine and Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine
Sunday
Inspiration piece
Squirrel…Lark…Lucky.
by Robert Haydon Jones
Response
A very small, very young squirrel’s frozen profile froze my glance into a
long look and held that pose so god damn long that I banged the half‐open
screen door to my roof deck just to get it going – and, boy, it skittered and
it shocked me with its bushy tail that felt more burly than bushy ‐‐ and I’m
telling you the squirrel was very young.
And then a red-breasted lark somehow flew in the open downstairs door
(our dog is very, very old) and my wife was shrieking like it was a mouse
or me with a fresh sin ‐‐ and the lark flew right on up the stairs and my
shrieking wife followed ‐‐ and the happy ending is the lark pecked at itself
in my bathroom mirror and then flew away out that same screen door that
I had rapped to scare the squirrel. I remember the red breast on the lark
made it seem very vulnerable.
I went on back to my chair and started to finish my morning coffee
when it occurred to me that I was very lucky that the men who
molested me, all those years ago, when I was a boy, didn’t kill me.
The more I think about it ‐‐ the luckier I feel.
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Robert Haydon Jones and Matthew Levine
Matthew Levine
Clear
Response
The Story of My Healing Hands
by J.P. McKenzie
as told to Robert Haydon Jones
Inspiration piece
Exactly a week ago today, I laid my hands on the …
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
and Alixandra Martin
Alixandra Martin
London Dreaming
Oil on Canvas 40″x30″
Inspiration Piece
Umbrella Path
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Response
Like old stones in a river
…..one by one
……….these bright umbrellas
……………form a path across the water
………………..keeping people …
Lisa L. Leibow and Marla Deschenes
Ruthie’s Town
by Marla Deschenes
Response
RUTHIE’S TOWN – a story excerpt
by Lisa L. Leibow
Inspiration
It’s an industrial city, centrally located – an hour from everywhere. On Main Street, …
Marla Deschenes and Lisa L. Leibow
October Trees
Marla Deschenes
Inspiration
MELTING OCTOBER SNOW – a story excerpt
by Lisa L. Leibow
Response
Bettina waited for the elevator, picking at the edges of an old wallet-sized photo …
dani harris and Ainsley Allmark
Ainsley Allmark
Inspiration piece
moon dance
by dani harris
Response
.
.
if not for the Moon
would there be no tides?
no gentle surf to wade in
or raging seas to fear?
.
if not for …
Ainsley Allmark and dani harris
Ainsley Allmark
Waiting
Response piece
.
the magic of a day
.
by dani harris
.
Inspiration piece
.
.
the sun came up
shining her love upon the world
warming hearts and souls
.
clouds passed by
for a very short while
shedding …
Russ McIntosh and Jewel Beth Davis
Russ McIntosh
Dweller Within
Digital composition
Response
Shekhinah Ballerina
By Jewel Beth Davis
Excerpt from novel, Crisis Becomes You
Inspiration piece
Chapter Three
Shekhinah Ballerina
With all your thrones and scepters you may rule the world for …
Irene Plax
Irene Plax
Inspiration Piece
Irene Plax
Response
My tia asked me why I didn’t dance with anyone at the New Year’s Eve party. She told me it’s bad luck …
John Lewis and Helen Lewis
The Matrix Blues (click link to play music)
By John Lewis
Response
The Matrix
By Helen Lewis
Inspiration piece
You know that bit
in The Matrix
where Neo wakes up
on a bunk bed,
head …
Neil Ellman and
Nick Winkworth
Nick Winkworth
Inspiration piece
When the Celebration Ends
By Neil Ellman
Response
We littered the streets
with broken glass
remnants of the night before
the eve of a holiday
none of us could name
making …
Susan Gordon and
Annie Perconti
Annie Perconti
Inspiration piece
On Seeing
By Susan Gordon
Response
I am ravished; I am without eyes,
my hair is hard-wired to strike.
From a distance I am a white seductive, come-hither …
Joan McNerney
and Jane Hulstrunk
Jane Hulstrunk
Inspiration piece
Trees Talk
By Joan McNerney
Response
Recounting tales in circles.
Light rings of summer
dark rings of winter.
They reveal their age.
Telling of barren winters
draped with snowy ice.
Or leafy …
MM Panas and JoAnn Moore
“Paradise Lost”
MM Panas
Acrylic, charcoal on canvas
24″x48″
Response
Shadows of Decay
By JoAnn Moore
Inspiration piece
Like recurring mold on the roof’s eave
that creeps houseward,
symptoms of decay are everywhere.
Non-native ivy suffocates
the …
Lisa Kilhefner and
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Lisa Kilhefner
Response
Unconditional
By Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Inspiration piece
“I wish they would only take me as I am.” Van Gogh
The photo sits, testament to something –
Her smile …
Sandy Coleman and Ray Sharp
Sandy Coleman
Letting Go
Response
Shades of Gray
By Ray Sharp
Inspiration piece
I wrote you a poem
in a small and even script
words like bird tracks
in wet sand
but I inked them …
Connie Begg and Dawn Lewis Cowan
Transplant
By Donna Lewis Cowan
Inspiration piece
It is what you wanted: to be emptied
and filled. Still it surprised you how
easily you came undone, how simply light
laid down …
Barbara McLaren Bever and Edite Haberman
Edite Haberman
Inspiration piece
Barbara McLaren Bever
Response
Unreined Ukraine
Horses once ran free
Between our rivers and the Caspians
Until we tamed them
Like we were later tamed
By Germans, Poles, and Russians
Corralled …