Author: elizabethstelling

Tyson West and
Elizabeth Stelling

Tyson West and
Elizabeth Stelling

Tyson West Response Entertaining Your 60s By Elizabeth Stelling Inspiration Piece Do you ever miss the simpler days one room baggage among crumpled beds war plots over bad coffee on every street corner …

 

Elizabeth Stelling
and Tyson West

Elizabeth Stelling
and Tyson West

Tyson West Inspiration piece Just Let Sleeping Dogs Lie by Elizabeth Akin Stelling Response It’s gone quiet this afternoon like all others on the late no lasting days of pit-patter rain. With that, …

 

Tyson West and
Elizabeth Akin Stelling

Tyson West and
Elizabeth Akin Stelling

Elizabeth Akin Stelling “Bystander” Inspiration piece You Can’t Buffalo Me By Tyson West Response Sister Elizabeth, you can’t tell me You got bison in New Jersey ‘ceping maybe in a couple of …

 

Elizabeth Akin Stelling
and Tyson West

Elizabeth Akin Stelling
and Tyson West

Elizabeth Akin Stelling “Disabled Guardian Angel” Response A Call to Souls By Tyson West Inspiration piece The darkened pine grove On the west bank of the mountain river Conceals the brick walls Of …

 

Tyson West and
Elizabeth Akin Stelling

Tyson West and
Elizabeth Akin Stelling

           Elizabeth Akin Stelling Texas Has Been Bronzed Response Goofy the Baptist By Tyson West Inspiration piece Pluto was decreed a dog So was Goofy guffawing in the rounds of Ike and Khrushchev When …

 

Elizabeth Akin Stelling
and Tyson West

Elizabeth Akin Stelling
and Tyson West

Elizabeth Akin Stelling West Texas Rain and JR Inspiration piece Hybristophilia By Tyson West Response You’ve heard of a woman’s glory Being spent on a “downright cur” Still you can’t always judge the …

 

Tyson West andElizabeth Akin Stelling

Tyson West andElizabeth Akin Stelling

              You can’t have too much butttermilk! By Tyson West Response  I Wudn’t Made for Buttermilk Summers By Elizabeth Akin Stelling Inspiration piece We always had chicken and eggs. “Which came first?” …

 

Elizabeth Akin Stelling
and Tyson West

Elizabeth Akin Stelling
and Tyson West

Tyson West Inspiration piece Outlaw Burt Alvord’s Hidden Treasure By Elizabeth Akin Stelling Response It was all out in the open. Clear as high noon in outlaw country. More than his …

 

Tyson West and Elizabeth Akin Stelling

Tyson West and Elizabeth Akin Stelling

Ain’t No Superheroes in Jersey Inspiration Piece by Tyson West The back alley behind my Cousin Vinnie’s pizzeria Smells of grease and malt liquor cans mostly Occasional the smell …

 

Elizabeth Akin Stelling and Tyson West

Elizabeth Akin Stelling and Tyson West

A Screen Door On A Submarine Inspiration Piece by Elizabeth Akin Stelling Is about as useless, as daddy’s telling their kids pilgrims loaded their guns during commercials. How one horse towns …

 

Tyson West and Elizabeth Akin Stelling

Tyson West and Elizabeth Akin Stelling

Inspiration Piece by Tyson West The Prairie Has Evolved Response Piece by Elizabeth Akin Stelling The season for a last ride off Wolf Range pulls an old vaquero from …

 

Elizabeth Akin Stelling and Tyson West

Elizabeth Akin Stelling and Tyson West

‘Dinner In Spain’ by Elizabeth Akin Stelling Inspiration WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE GOOSE As Taught by Sister Erin by Tyson West My children sweet you see ─ All is part …

 

Elizabeth Stelling and Tyson West

Elizabeth Stelling and Tyson West

    ‘Touched by the Hood’ by Elizabeth Stelling Response Inspiration by Tyson West NEGRO SPRITUALS SUNG BY A GROUNDSKEEPER I Deep burry booming though his bass Rattled the walls of the flimsy …

 

Tyson West and Elizabeth Stelling

Tyson West and Elizabeth Stelling

  ‘Heart’ by Elizabeth Stelling Inspiration Response by Tyson West Psst… Hey Sailor, Up Here. I Port of Call—Seattle If old soldiers never die, What happens to old sailors? Sea breezes never run …

 

Yebyul Oh and
Elizabeth Akin Stelling

Yebyul Oh and
Elizabeth Akin Stelling

Yebyul Oh Response Small Knots By Elizabeth Akin Stelling Inspiration piece Each time my hands ran through your locks trying to comb out restlessness my fingers would stop in your tiny strands watching blown …

 

Elizabeth Akin Stelling
and Yebyul Oh

Elizabeth Akin Stelling
and Yebyul Oh

                  Yebyul Oh Inspiration piece Everything Is Beautiful To A Little Girl By Elizabeth Akin Stelling Response Young eyes scan the unfamiliar room moving over black upon black toward curve of the shoulder as …

 

Michael Baca and Elizabeth Stelling

Michael Baca and Elizabeth Stelling

                  Response piece by Michael Baca Inspiration piece by Elizabeth Akin Stelling Tonight, he just wasn’t feeling it taking those slow walks around the block risk of unwelcome injury in …

 

Elizabeth Stelling and Michael Baca

Elizabeth Stelling and Michael Baca

                  Inspiration piece by Michael Baca Response piece by Elizabeth Akin Stelling Hot Damn the heat! August was like that in Texas. Cryer Creek is a hell hole in summer the sheriff …

 

Elizabeth Stelling and Marybeth Carshaw

Elizabeth Stelling and Marybeth Carshaw

Marybeth Carshaw- Healing Angel Inspiration Piece The Last Wish I Made Before Midnight by Elizabeth Stelling Response A latent snow flake began to sparkle on my window sill. March’s rushing …

 

Marybeth Carshaw and Elizabeth Stelling

Marybeth Carshaw and Elizabeth Stelling

Marybeth Carshaw – Growth Response Twenty Minutes From Galway To Dublin by Elizabeth Stelling Inspiration Piece Dublin is calling our names Remember how funny it seemed To be on the wrong side …

 

Christina Brockett and Elizabeth Stelling

Christina Brockett and Elizabeth Stelling

Christina Brockett Response Twenty Minutes From Galway To Dublin by Elizabeth Stelling Inspiration Piece Dublin is calling our names Remember how funny it seemed To be on the wrong side of the …

 

Elizabeth Stelling andChristina Brockett

Elizabeth Stelling andChristina Brockett

Christina Brockett Inspiration Piece If I Take the Wings of the New Morning By Elizabeth Stelling Response I know we said no one would leave this place, until we were …