Jay Young Gerard “Homelessness” Inspiration piece Not the Blight You’re Thinking of By Lisa Nielsen Response i watch your grueling hunchbacked body meandering side to side while frustrated commuters twist about to …
Jay Young Gerard “ReEmergence” Response scenes from an italian restaurant By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece you’ve grown smaller from last I saw you, he is larger than your prize that house you coveted has bars he takes …
Cristal Brawley Inspiration piece Stability Not Stabile-ity By Diane Mayr Response “The aesthetic value of these objects cannot be arrived at by reasoning. Familiarization is necessary.” — Alexander Calder It looked …
Erika Cleveland “Your Dog was Dead. You, Likewise, Were Almost Dead.” Response Another Day By Channie Greenberg Inspiration piece Minute upon minute, the days creep. It is not so much that looking …
Erika Cleveland “Things Weighing on My Mind” Inspiration piece The Weighty Decades of Yehudis Blau By Channie Greenberg Response Yehudis sighed as she pulled at her cuticle. When she was a …
Amy Souza Response Jenny Forrester Inspiration piece My brother and I loved Johnny Cash, singing Ring of Fire. Loud. Over and over. It’s decades later now. We grew apart in …
Amy Souza Inspiration piece Jenny Forrester Response I wish you would’ve listened while I was water and you were sand. It hurt to fly into the center alone, to …
Jone MacCulloch Response Notes in a Locker By Margaret Simon Inspiration piece I forgot …..who she wanted to become. …..A note dropped into a locker …..scribbled in cursive, …..curly letters to sign her name. I …
Timmy McKay “Mariposa” Inspiration Mariposa (Butterfly) Alight By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Sharp contrasting color blocks Butterfly alight True authentic brush strong In a field quite tight Each shaft caught on contoured plane Boundaries without fear No …
Jennifer Fendya “Sheep Go to Heaven” (2010) Inspiration piece Jenny Forrester Response I live in heaven with multi-verse gods, ghosts and aging cats, sitting in a tree house, watching bright …
Jennifer Fendya “The Spark of Self-Recognition” Response Jenny Forrester Inspiration piece On the porch, windowed, green painted, white trim, I’d screwed hooks every whichawhere and there were flowers hanging upside …
Stephanie Ross Inspiration piece I SKINNED MY KNEE ON THE WAY TO PARIS By Stefanie A. Shilling Response I skinned my knee on the way to Paris. It wasn’t the bulging …
Elizabeth Burke Inspiration piece A Lamp Unto the World By Ray Sharp Response Each of us, in their own way, is called to heal the world, to gather up the light scattered in …
Jone MacCulloch Inspiration piece How Do We Stand? By Margaret Simon Response I go to Lady Bird Johnson Grove to be among these giant trees. Fenced forest of ten thousand branches diffuses blue …
Elizabeth Burke Response The Old Gods By Ray Sharp Inspiration piece The old gods spoke through the crows in the trees, the tongue of the flame, the wind that stirred the ashes, but I …
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