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Lisa Lynn Biggar and Ana Goncalves

Ana Goncalves Windermere Horse Inspiration piece Celebration by Lisa Lynn Biggar Response I took a different path. Normally, I jog down the path that leads to the public park …

Nancy Claeys and
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Nancy Claeys The Promise Response . Found Button By Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Inspiration piece She sewed it on her hero. (He was just her hero then.) He wore this button on his shirt the …

Donna Gagnon and Margaret Mair

INSPIRATION – Margaret Mair RESPONSE – Outside of Lessons by Donna Gagnon grass in springtime fresh and soft Taj runs, swirls the new yellow dress, sings praise to her maa sun frowns at this innocent dancing so freely orders the …

Margaret Mair and Donna Gagnon

RESPONSE — Margaret Mair INSPIRATION — Migrant by Donna Gagnon Mette wrote: kære mor … Paul has lost his mind. I am bringing the children back to Copenhagen. We …

Nancy Claeys and Priya Chhaya

Priya Chhaya Inspiration Piece Meriosis and The Remnant Nancy Claeys Response Transgression Meriosis was born the son of Zeus and Nelipita, a mortal. Believing that her son was the true heir …

Caroline Evey and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Digitally manipulated photograph Inspiration piece Home Away By Caroline Evey Response everything she thought she had was being taken. it was not literal. her belongings were fine. but …

Mendy Waits and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece Stained By Mendy Waits Response I’m not dumb. I do the math in my head. $59.50 (the blouse from Gap had not been on sale). That’s …

Julia Latein-Kimmig and Joanna Lee

Julia Latein-Kimmig response ….. work in progress Joanna Suzanne Lee inspiration piece About this time last spring a part of me left without notice to run free with the wild horses, taking with it …

Judy Weinberg and Jewel Beth Davis

Judy Weinberg No Comfort Response Piece Upon a Mattress Jewel Beth Davis Inspiration Piece I stand up in my attic bedroom staring at the huge expanse that is my new bed. …

Jim Doran and Hildie Block

Muse Ut Vos Postulo Suus Jim Doran Inspiration piece: Hunting Irony Hildie Block “Roy owned the only drive-thru funeral business in Maine.” She looked at this line and frowned. “This …

David Turman and KJ Hannah Greenburg

Of, or relating to the cursory; splinters of chits. As sensible as growing out a hangnail, as piling up vacant utilities, Maybe, as spectacularly funicular as Medusian tresses on a bad hair day.

Anne Rocha and Jared Thuro

Anne Rocha “Notes from the Sun” Response Jared Thuro Inspiration Piece Jared Thuro and Anne Rocha

Hildie S Block and Jim Doran

Jim Doran Inspiration Piece Stopped In Time Hildie S. Block Response Piece “Just another hoop,” Daria muttered to the sign-in sheet at the nurse’s station as she scratched down “Community …

Dana Gray and Michelle Wallace

dana gray “one orange” response michelle wallace “survival mode” inspiration Where the heck am I going? Driving blindfolded, It’s hard to stay on the road Walking zombie, arms outstretched Snatching anything I feel Willing this to …

Denise Marois and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Old Town Digitally manipulated photograph Inspiration piece The Trust Department By Denise Marois Response We are, after many delays, finally in the lawyer’s office, and from where I stand by …

Adam Cornford and Sukia

Sukia Inspiration piece Questions Concerning Twin Souls By Adam Cornford Response How does the first soul cell divide to form two identical beginnings? Do they grow apart? Is each soul still …

Irene Plax and Margot Eyring

Margot Eyring Transforming Inspiration piece Irene Plax Response Rich is at the eighth hole when his cell phone rings. He procures it from the pocket of his khakis. Tee off was …

Margot Eyring and Irene Plax

Margot Eyring Dust Cloud Response The Hum By Irene Plax Inspiration Piece The drill howls and grinds on the street. It wakes Marley. She rolls over, but her husband has slept …

Michelle Wallace and Jewel Davis

Michelle Wallace Hold Onto Hope Response Piece The Italian Brownies By Jewel Beth Davis Inspiration Piece Providence 1974 It is autumn and camp is over. I am back in Providence preparing to …

Gwynne Mason and
Marla Deschenes

Gwynne Mason Anica Response October By Marla Deschenes Inspiration piece October closes its sweatered arms around me The crunch of falling leaves greet both my feet And my constant companion’s Though his feet …

Paula Lantz and Rebecca Harris

Red Rumor by Paula Lantz (Piece is acrylic, comprised of two canvasses, for a total of 28 x 44) . . Baby Dishes by Rebecca Harris . pin prick of winter rain rounds …

Rebecca Harris and Paula Lantz

untitled (For F.S Moskowitz) she doesn’t tell us “slow-ly” no adverb wielding Philistine she prose enunciated with practiced languid ease she describes heartache down to the follicle Some slow pull of …

R. Dennis Hayes and Adam Cornford

Windham Chill By R. Dennis Hayes Response to Spring (1868-1873) J.-F. Millet A grassy track recedes between small plots with apple trees tipping their blossom over rows of cabbages or fallow …

Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones

Greg Lippert First Drink Inspiration Piece The Woodchuck’s Sleep Coming On By Robert Haydon Jones Response You probably know my younger brother. For nearly forty years, he was a famous television …

Dale Leffler and Delores Jerry Eckberg

Mason View response by: Delores Jerry Eckberg Let me in SPARK10 Response words: Dale Leffler Let me in I’m sorry I didn’t answer the door I’m sorry I didn’t let …