Category Archive: SPARK 15

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Cara Moulds

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Cara Moulds

Cara Moulds  Carefree photograph Inspiration Piece Carefree  Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Tickle the feet samba in footbath salty sweet Setting sun capturing the mood of a perfect day hanging on Not to be …

 

Grace Burns and Judy Weinberg

Grace Burns and Judy Weinberg

Judy Weinberg Inspiration Grace Burns Waiting for Eureka Response Waiting for outer layers to whither away, to expose life anew. Waiting for the moment when fear of everything evaporates into nothing. Waiting …

 

Lisa Kilhefner and Katie Helms

Lisa Kilhefner and Katie Helms

Katie Helms Inspiration Piece Lisa Kilhefner Response Piece exhalation She rubs her silhouette against the fog, and begs the grey to smear some hint of dawn. She mouths the words; her mumbled …

 

Pharoah Bolding and Irene Plax

Pharoah Bolding and Irene Plax

Pharoah Bolding Response     The baby was passed out in the stroller, head back, mouth open, not nearly as funny as when adults do it. The man who had …

 

Judy Weinberg and Grace Burns

Judy Weinberg and Grace Burns

Judy Weinberg Response Rainbow Spotting By Grace Burns Inspiration Piece Prismatic droplets arch above the eastern sky I chant ancient incantations long dormant uttered last by my girl ghost. Note: All of the art, writing, and …

 

Channie Greenberg and Diane Mayr

Channie Greenberg and Diane Mayr

Big E 2011 by Diane Mayr Inspiration piece   Carnival Provocations by Channie Greenberg Response piece   Carnival Provocations Carnival provocations, very harpy-like, beckon via cotton candy sweetness, The smell of doughnuts, impossibly deep-fried pickles, …

 

Frank Cianciotti and Lisa Nielsen

Frank Cianciotti and Lisa Nielsen

Frank Cianciotti Response Lisa Nielsen Inspiration Piece Memorialized (Again) we zigzagged thru traffic your gasoline breath over bursting knuckles anxious to get to the memorial like it was a disney ride parents told children not …

 

Lisa Nielsen and Frank Cianciotti

Lisa Nielsen and Frank Cianciotti

Frank Cianciotti Inspiration Piece Lisa Nielsen Response: adrift again i scattered you into the ocean to say good-bye and then came back to find you i expected you to be waiting but i can’t …

 

Kristi Conley-Brockie and Lisa Eldridge

Kristi Conley-Brockie and Lisa Eldridge

Kristi Conley-Brockie The Pie That Went to my Thigh Pencil and PhotoShop Response Why Did I Eat That Pie? by Lisa Eldridge Inspiration piece Why did I eat that pie? It went directly …

 

Sandy Coleman and Ray Sharp

Sandy Coleman and Ray Sharp

Sandy Coleman Response piece Beyond the Horizon Mixed media on canvas Ray Sharp Inspiration piece BIRDS There must be birds beyond the horizon. We feel their wings beating in the wind, hear their murmured conversations roll …

 

Val Bonney and Maggie Caldwell

Val Bonney and Maggie Caldwell

Val Bonney Response Bellefontaine Soup   Maggie Caldwell Inspiration Piece Sunday Supper   The first time I ever ate raccoon was at Bellefontaine Cemetery over on the north side of town.   (You know, that’s where your grandparents …

 

Diane Mayr and Channie Greenberg

Diane Mayr and Channie Greenberg

Shall We Dance? by Diane Mayr Response piece   Parenting’s Saxophone Smiles by Channie Greenberg Inspiration piece    Parenting’s Saxophone Smiles When lads do play a piccolo, girls tweet upon a flute, Bray a brassy …

 

Heidi Mordhorst and Linda M. Rhinehart Neas

Heidi Mordhorst and Linda M. Rhinehart Neas

“Window Pains” by Linda M. Rhinehart Neas Inspiration Piece Photo taken with Nikon Coolpix 4300 Digitally enhanced with Gimp   Window Pains by Heidi Mordhorst Response To ash the hands who built …

 

Jack Hernandez and Jewel Beth Davis

Jack Hernandez and Jewel Beth Davis

Response piece by Jack Hernandez (mixed media ACEO) Inspirational Piece by Jewel Beth Davis … The Room The air hangs in the room, stagnant. Antiseptically offensive. Heavy machinery. Long …

 

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 …

 

Anthony Valade and Linda M. Rhinehart Neas

Anthony Valade and Linda M. Rhinehart Neas

  Photo by: Linda M. Rhinehart Neas Hives. By Anthony Valade Here they are all sitting in a line, fit for prince of death and decay. Left to survive, …

 

Gabriel Shanks and Russ McIntosh

Gabriel Shanks and Russ McIntosh

” “Phantasmagoric” by Russ McIntosh (Inspiration Piece) ———– “The Way It Began (A Sacred Cantata For Science Nerds)” by Gabriel Shanks (Response Piece) with additional text reconsituted from the Upanishads, the …

 

Cinthia Lozano and Sukia

Cinthia Lozano and Sukia

Inspiration Piece by Sukia Response Piece by Cinthia Lozano Fantasy by Cinthia Lozano Looking into a world unknown Unknown and undiscovered Undiscovered, yet it is calling me in whispers Whispers floating into …

 

Amaryllis Holloway-Turman
and Kathleen Jordan

Amaryllis Holloway-Turman
and Kathleen Jordan

Piercing Eye By Amaryllis Holloway-Turman Response Piece Direct Gaze By Kathleen Jordan Inspiration piece Face to face, eye to eye, direct gaze Not into a monitor, or a cell phone but in …

 

Cinthia Lozano and Amanda Miska

Cinthia Lozano and Amanda Miska

Inspiration Piece by Amanda Miska Response Piece by Cinthia Lozano New Heaven by Amanda Miska Bare branches hang in silhouette against a violent violet-orange sky. They speed toward the …

 

Jane Hulstrunk and Quentin Paquette

Jane Hulstrunk and Quentin Paquette

  JANE HULSTRUNK Response   QUENTIN PAQUETTE Inspiration   I don’t know if I ever told you I was once the collegiate intramural champion in the mile and a half.  …

 

Jewel Beth Davis
and Jack Hernandez

Jewel Beth Davis
and Jack Hernandez

Jack Hernandez Inspiration Piece The Bullfrog’s Vision By Jewel Beth Davis Response “Where are we?” Sarah said. “Just keep walking,” Sadie told her. The two sisters moved along the path blanketed in …

 

Amanda C. Brainerd and Annmarie Lockhart

Amanda C. Brainerd and Annmarie Lockhart

Amanda C. Brainerd Response piece Inspiration Piece All Sorts of Gambles By Annmarie Lockhart Weather, winning, and writing are the basic components of a particular kind of trifecta won in all …

 

Su Baccino and Bob Moore

Su Baccino and Bob Moore

© Robert Moore  2011             The Yard Sale I made the turn down Elbow Road into the neighborhood known as Rapier.  I’m not sure why it was called …