Bridget Fahey O’Brien Reciprocity Inspiration Piece Photo Opp Annmarie Lockhart Response Alright, babe. Selfie time! Smile for the camera! Say mozzarella! Check it, this light totally brings out my eyes. I’m definitely posting this. I’m …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Transition Response Toasted Wishes Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece Ten years ago I sat at a table with a dozen friends, half a lifetime and a thousand miles away. We toasted four decades …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Rock Climbing Response ABCs By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece You gave me a sheet of green lined paper with my name ranged across the top and a lopsided heart halfway …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Beginning/End Inspiration Piece Star-Crossed By Annmarie Lockhart Response Summer finally remembered to check the calendar. She’s a few weeks late and I can relate. Who can resist the pull of …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Afternoon Delight Inspiration Piece Things They Didn’t See By Annmarie Lockhart Response She didn’t see: the time it took to flatten and stack the boxes that carried onions, broccoli, bean …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Power in the Clouds Response Ladder By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration piece Maybe if we climb high enough above the clouds like Dorothy, beyond the noise of Babel, the tastes of the …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Pop Art Inspiration Piece Post No Bills Annmarie Lockhart Response Words don’t tell the story any better than pictures, icons and fantasies. Black paint on yellow brick evokes a tintype telegraph but fuchsia swirled …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien East River Run Response Winter Station, Heading North Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece Tonight, drunk on rum that will not freeze and water that will not burn a friend told me that iced …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Through His Eyes Inspiration Piece Escape Annmarie Lockhart Response Driving my daughter home for spring break, stuck in stop-and-go traffic on Pennsylvania 95, we see a small dog, chow or …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Carrying Light Response No Secrets Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece The trees were supposed to carry you my secrets: scrawled love notes on swirling leaves. But no wind blows six years strong and …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Inspiration Piece Snow Waltzing Annmarie Lockhart Response Mind Over Matter this poem is not about snow no matter how the flakes pile up at the door, or the way a …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Response Ferry Drive-by Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece Once Again, I’m Sick for Superbowl spit and bitten my viewpoint always birdless and occasionally hopeless but never, ever helpless even when the song floats unsung the …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Morning After Inspiration Piece After the Carriage Returns to a Pumpkin By Annmarie Lockhart Response at the peak of the party at half-past midnight it’s easy to forget that morning comes moaning …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien They Come Out at Night Response What Poe Might Have Creatively Interpreted Had He Been Born Some 50 Years Later and Known Something of Whitechapel By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration …
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 …
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 …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Silhouette Response Fan Dance By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece . coy Kyoto breeze paper-thin wood backbone plum fabric blossoms folding and unfolding light and air move through its leaves stirring summer senses hiding and revealing in hitched …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien All the World Loves a Clown Inspiration Piece Join the Circus By Annmarie Lockhart . I’ve never been a fan of clowns. Nor stilt walkers, fire breathers, or sword swallowers. …
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 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 …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Bueno Inspiration Piece y Bueno By Annmarie Lockhart Response . Do you believe in heaven? she asked me. No, I answered, no hesitation. Of course that was before I came here and …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien The Port Authority Response I Was Going Someplace By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece . tracking, like the railroad, like the line of sight, like the course of action . expected and predictable . the only surprises being …
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