Category Archive: SPARK 57

Work from SPARK 57: November 29 – December 8, 2023

Julie Christensen and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Julie Christensen and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Julie Christensen Response Haunting Landscape By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Laid out, sprawling and dotted, once choked with trees The spits left after the logging …..punctuate the melancholic presence with …

 

Tracy Burkholder and Kate Copeland

Tracy Burkholder and Kate Copeland

Tracy Burkholder Response White Lavender By Kate Copeland Inspiration piece When my heavy heart carries away on heavy legs; when I am just unable to think beyond winter, where leafless love combines the cold …

 

Brian MacDonald and Andrea Dye

Brian MacDonald and Andrea Dye

Brian MacDonald Response Andrea Dye Inspiration piece white horse Kermit chews whiskers twitch in fresh clover green muzzle – full soul   —————————————————— Note: All of the art, writing, and music on this site …

 

Andrea Dye and Brian MacDonald

Andrea Dye and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece Andrea Dye Response Respectful of nature, Children build away from danger. Jumping in, now protected. Perhaps a middle way. Is our nature to defy Mother? C’est la vie.   —————————————————— Note: All of …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Julie Christensen

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Julie Christensen

Julie Christensen Inspiration piece Wide Open Wonder By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response The slopes and angles kiss the eye The light and shadow taunts The sparseness hungers for colors bright To bathe, enliven …

 

Jennifer Fendya and Stefanie A. Shilling

Jennifer Fendya and Stefanie A. Shilling

Jennifer Fendya “Alas, she loved them more” Response No Room Left For Me By Stefanie A. Shilling Inspiration piece it started with a few photos on the dresser the record playing knick-knacks filled the …

 

Stefanie A. Shilling and Jennifer Fendya

Stefanie A. Shilling and Jennifer Fendya

Jennifer Fendya “…an open gate” Inspiration piece Open Endings By Stefanie A. Shilling Response she lived alone now her children long grown lured away to the bright lights of the big city her husband …

 

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Marilyn Ackerman

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Marilyn Ackerman

Marilyn Ackerman Inspiration piece Of Books and Libraries By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response “MooMaw, tell me a story.” “Sure.” “Tell me about libraries.” “Well, I’ve long been something of an anorak.” “A parka?” “No, a …

 

Marilyn Ackerman
and KJ Hannah Greenberg

Marilyn Ackerman
and KJ Hannah Greenberg

Marilyn Ackerman Response One-Eyed, Long-Nosed, Espying Rooftop Pigeon Eater By KJ Hannah Greenberg Inspiration piece As soon as Harriet entered the building, she headed to the seventh floor. There, on the …