Amanda C. Brainerd and Charisse R. Cecil
Amanda C. Brainerd
Response
Blues
By Charisse R. Cecil
Inspiration piece
My music, my mood.
Billie and Miles.
Melancholy and mellow.
The berries
in my morning muffin.
His bow-legged, boot-cut,
denim-clad swagger.
The funky-sweet blend
of sweat, liquor, …
Amy Moffitt and Charisse Cecil
Charisse Cecil
Inspiration piece
Amy Moffitt
Response
Choose
(for Charisse)
Every day is a decision.
Tonight, the crickets sing in the bushes,
and I choose to remember you:
dreadlocks flowing and bright face,
smile beaming …
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine
Without You
Response Piece
Without You
By Robert Haydon Jones
Inspiration piece
.
Everywhere I go without you
is without you.
.
Note: All of the art, writing, and music on this site …
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
Matthew Levine
Loss
Inspiration piece
My Tawdry Story
By Robert Haydon Jones
Response piece
Chances are you know me from your Evening News or Dateline NBC or 60 Minutes. I’m the …
Lisa Lipkind Leibow and Russ McIntosh
Russ McIntosh
MidnightDream
Digital Composition
Inspiration piece
Rooted In the Heights
By Lisa Lipkind Leibow
Response
Phoenix of the Sequoias interlaced his branch tips with Scarlett’s, tapped his roots in rhythm to the song …
Russ McIntosh and Lisa Lipkind Leibow
Russ McIntosh
Love’s Sorrow
Digital composition
Response
A COILED SPRING
By Lisa Lipkind Leibow
A novel excerpt
(A portion of this yet-to-be published novel appeared in Pisgah Review as a standalone short …
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Sukia
Sukia
Inspiration piece
Windfall Fruit
© KJ Hannah Greenberg
Response
Windfall fruit might, just perhaps, disrupt enough leaf circles,
Trounce sufficient baby lizards (otherwise scuttling red-purple),
Bounce my heart, maybe, clear of …
Charisse Cecil
and Lizzie Parker
Fallen Angels
By Charisse Cecil
Response
Visions
By Lizzie Parker
Inspiration piece
I have never seen a saint
Or been in the presence of angels
Though, I hear that they are both all …
Marla Deschenes and Rachel Morton
Rachel Morton
Hand-built clay
Inspiration piece
Marla Deschenes
One More Day
Response piece
Life will hand you the hardest of destinies
And you will clench your jaw and steel your gaze
And find …
dani harris and Ainsley Allmark
Ainsley Allmark
Inspiration Piece
dani harris
a tree i once met
Response
i don’t recall
ever seeing
…no… ever meeting
such a tree
before or since
.
she had no branches on …
Ainsley Allmark and dani harris
Ainsley Allmark
Response
dani harris
i wonder what they say?
Inspiration piece
.
in the quiet of the night
when the Moon is full
not a star can be seen
because the Moon …
Andrena Zawinski and
Helen Lewis
Andrena Zawinski
Sandbagged by Love
Response
Helen Lewis
Keyboard Love
Inspiration piece
Annie Perconti and Amy Souza
Amy Souza
Acrylic and collage on panel
Inspiration piece
Blue
By Annie Perconti
Response
.
a daughters
forgetful father
cries liquor
into tears
the blue of his reflection
holds her redemption
.
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Note: All of the art, writing, and …
Leyla Sarigol and Amy Souza
Amy Souza
Inspiration piece
IV
By Amy Souza
Inspiration piece
One thousand years from now
above the Aegean Sea,
two metal beasts collide,
raining flesh and flames,
the scorch of burning skin.
Ashes of past …
Beth Homa and Marla Deschenes
Trust in Process
Beth Homa
Response
Art is Not Conformity
By Marla Deschenes
Inspiration piece
Nimble hands of tiny stature
Not restricted by the chains society will
Later administer.
As time passes
Doubt replaces that …
Bridget Fahey and Lisa Nielsen
Lisa Nielsen
this is where you’ll find me
inspiration piece:
if the love I am looking for is looking for me,
then why have I been traced by limbs …
Lisa Nielsen and Bridget Fahey
BRIDGET FAHEY
The Sentinel
inspiration piece
No Rapture Here
Lisa Nielsen
Response:
You were supposed to be looking out for me
Instead you moped around uprooting trees
What kind of protector are you …
Lisa Kilhefner
and Claire Guyton
Claire Guyton
Inspiration Piece
Glaring
By Lisa Kilhefner
Response
i’m swimming in the ocean of uproar,
in my own disregard for her,
in my two-sided-ness.
i’m floating along a polished glass floor,
over her …
Hildie S. Block and Sukia
“Yes, dear.”
“Don’t start with me.”
Randolph hooted “people” softly on his perch and scooted over a few inches on the 10 foot long bar.
Amy Souza and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Amy Souza
Acrylic, lava gel, and beeswax on canvas
Response
Passion
By Kathleen Finn Jordan
Inspiration piece
Passion – a whelming over thrusting active force
Tensile, heat seeking, volcanic, concussive, consuming, inhale/exhale
Exhaust …
Alisa Laska
and Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald
Inspiration piece
Alisa Laska
Response
Hope is hard to find.
It seems out of place here
like an old, abandoned chair in a field of weeds.
The tall grass ready …
Annie Perconti and Bobbie Troy
Annie Perconti
Response
Reader and Adviser
By Bobbie Troy
Inspiration piece
next to a twilighted church
the face of a child Madonna
appeared as an outline
behind faded, flowered curtains
the sign read
Reader and …
Myfanwy Fox & Kapulco
Canopy Of Dreams
by Kapulco
(Inspiration Piece)
Living
by Myfanwy Fox
(Response Piece)
Beneath layered eons’
mulch: post holes, now filled
with soil; evidence
of humanity
long since buried; structure
destroyed by death watch
larvae from …
Annmarie Lockhart and Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Clairvoyance
Inspiration Piece
What the Girl Sees
By Annmarie Lockhart
Response
.
“There’s a girl in New York City, calls herself the human trampoline.”–Paul Simon
.
It’s been somewhere between forever …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien and Annmarie Lockhart
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Omnipresent
Response
Ruminations
By Annmarie Lockhart
Inspiration Piece
.
Rumi asks:
What is your life about anyway?
Nothing but a struggle to be someone,
Nothing but a running from your own silence.
.
freedom …