Lynne Elizabeth Heiser Inspiration piece Barbara McLaren Bever Response Via Angelo Via Angelo was their world. Games of tag and hide-and-seek on its cobblestone streets. Later dressed in communion whites They paraded slowly …
Judy Weinberg Inspiration Black or White By Grace Burns Response What would it be like to live in a digital world where there were no shades of gray? right or wrong true or false bad or …
Louisiana Highway John Lewis Inspiration piece (music) Louisiana Highway Helen Lewis Response Mile 392 Head lights punch through the darkness. One of my hands grips the wheel, knuckles white. The other cradles a cigarette, lifting it …
Amy Souza “Soler Sequence” Ink and pencil on paper Response Solar Birthing Soler By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Walking thru the summer sun The sandals flap from heels alight And breezes blow neath …
Amy Souza “Ray of Hope/Desire” Ink and pencil on paint chip, with mixed media collage Response Jacob’s Daughter By Amanda Miska Inspiration piece . In high school, my husband was a wrestler. It still …
Jane Hulstrunk Response Mint and the Way of the Dog By Linda M. Rhinehart Neas Inspiration piece The plant melted down your windowsill. Green fragrance rubbed between Inquisitive fingers – “It’s mint!” I …
The Ocean Becomes The Drop By Annie Perconti Response Ocean Boy Susan Gordon Inspiration piece I was born of the ocean. I was born of the sea. I clung to a …
Helen Lewis Put on your red shoes and dance the blues Inspiration piece David Ord Small shoes Response He had sat in the garden, on the bench in the …
Helen Lewis Untitled Response David Ord Winchelsea Inspiration piece We’d been following the shoreline for half an hour or so, stopping every now and then to stare up at …
Inspiration Piece Lisa Nielsen i was once as lonely as this i was once as lonely as this: dusty bones on a steel table longing eyes and a misplaced hand forever …
Inspiration Piece Bridget Fahey O’Brien Moving On Response Lisa Nielsen All You Don’t Know All that you don’t know about me could fit into the Sargasso sea Yet, you can’t separate me from …
Inspiration Piece ‘Test results’ by Lisa Kilhefner I was heavy from too much sleep. The Tylenol spread out against last night’s flickering and my red blood cells, aching. You …
Ben Tuason Response “7G&7Blue” By Adam Gagnon Inspiration piece the sky burns and melts like an opium chemic in my veins the stars are bleeding and space is stained crimson I light my candles …
Remains Nick Winkworth Response The Box Hildie S Block Inspiration Piece I’m opening the box. I’m breaking the law. You aren’t allowed to do this after someone dies. Not right after. Not …
Nick Winkworth Inspiration Piece Sky High Hildie S. Block Response It was the moment everything changed for Sasha. Not the moment she’d been brought to the US to be adopted as …
Amy Souza Inspiration Piece Snow Day by Amanda Miska Response Piece The street is perfectly still and white against the backdrop of a pallid sky. No school buses, no skidding …
Judy Weinberg Response Black Friday Grace Burns Inspiration piece A warehouse of wonders beckons me with magnificent megaliths of merchandise – plasma screens game systems laptop computers clusters of clothing and enough food to feed a small country. I want …
Connie Begg Inspiration Piece Sinking by Marla Deschenes Response Piece I stood there in that room – the shadows and the light play their games of chase Scurrying harried over the …
Artist Frank Gibson Response Guilty By Ray Sharp Inspiration piece I woke this morning from a dream in which I was holding something round in my palms, vague and undefined, squeezing it into …
Reflections of a Night in Dreamland Jewel Beth Davis Inspired by a piece of art by Russ McIntosh I stare into the pool at my reflection. All I …
Paria Canyon, Arizona, April 2008 Ray Sharp Photo All the Old Familiar Songs By Ray Sharp Response . Oh my darling, sing to me in this time of dreadful sorrow. . Verses fly across the …
Sukia Inspiration Piece Hurricane Season Donna Lewis Cowan Response We were house-bound during the hurricane, relaying the part of us that would run versus the one that would delay, stay and watch, heart …
Brenda Moguez & Frank Gibson I know you’re in heaven Singing with Waylon, Johnny, Box Car Willie, maybe Elvis and Jimi, too. Living the life, you chased here on …
Lynn Heiser Inspiration Piece The Whisper of Eros It was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart The whisper of Eros is heard before He arrives The …
Still Life, circa 1976 By Annmarie Lockhart Response (poem and photo) . mosquito spray and chlorine and hissing lights reflecting off baselines and yellow scuff, pong, scuff, pong, scuff, scuff, “out!” one summer of …