Linda Mitchell and
Jone Rush MacCulloch
Jone Rush MacCulloch
“Early Dawn”
Inspiration piece
Early Dawn
By Linda Mitchell
Response
dreams whisper
to wake before sunrise
slipper shuffle to writing room
coffee in hand
to wake before sunrise
word play, journal time
coffee in …
Ash Martins and Madona Tyler LeBlanc
Madona Tyler LeBlanc
“Paper Marigolds, Rhizome Interior”
Inspiration piece
Unanswered Questions
By Ash Martins
Response
Anne,
honey,
please let the
dogs in the house?
It’s raining buckets
Don’t forget, call Maeve back
Her wife’s chemo failed …
Angi Lewis and Donna JT Smith
Donna JT Smith
“Thoughtful Bunny”
Inspiration piece
Waiting
By Angi Lewis
Response
Out the window
all is white.
I miss the light in spring
the spread of green.
dear Rabbit,
teach me to sit and listen
for …
Fernanda Valentino and
Jone Rush MacCulloch
Jone Rush MacCulloch
“Glencoe, Scotland”
Photograph
Inspiration piece
Fàilte
By Fernanda Valentino
Response
Heavy clouds cascading
Looming low, they skim
And brush these emerald valleys
With winter’s thick, cold kiss.
Laden with burdens
The storm clouds linger, …
Donna JT Smith and Leslie Grollman
Leslie Grollman
“A Creation Myth”
Inspiration piece
Creation of the Myth
By Donna JT Smith
Response
There was this extreme “kaboom!”
like when a tree falls in the woods only hundreds of …
Donna JT Smith and Angi Lewis
Donna JT Smith
“Winter at the Lake”
Watercolor
Response
Winter Memory
By Angi Lewis
Inspiration piece
I am young, maybe eight-
my brother and I walk
to the lake alone.
I put on my skates
draw …
Madona Tyler LeBlanc and Ash Martins
Madona Tyler LeBlanc
“Syzygy”
Watercolor and Ink
Response
Dancing in the Dark
By Ash Martins
Inspiration piece
Parking lot stand-off
Whose reverse lights flashed first here?
Winter’s pas de deux
——————————————————
Note: All of the art, …
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Missy Lambert
Missy Lambert
paper with acrylics, oil, pastels and pencil
Inspiration piece
Gracefull
By Kathleen Finn Jordan
Response
Grace sweeps the sky and dives to earth
Embracing inspiring and overflowing wide
Lodges in hearts …
Tora Estep and Natascha Dea Burdeinei
Tora Estep
“The Harvest”
Preparatory thumbnail sketch, graphite on paper
Response
We Roar
By Natascha Dea Burdeinei
Inspiration piece
Rage battles disappointment; anger and frustration swirl and bubble up again. The scream …
Natascha Dea Burdeinei and Tora Estep
Tora Estep
“What Lies Beneath”
Oil on Canvas
Inspiration piece
Natascha Dea Burdeinei
Response
The morphine push didn’t take long.
One moment I was holding my lucid and sagacious 92-year-old uncle’s hand, …
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard
Response
Regret to Desire
By Lisa Nielsen
Inspiration piece
I keep measuring beats but the song is the same
The water under the bridge is dark,
a brooding season …
Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Jay Young Gerard
“Contusa”
Inspiration piece
I Felt Something, For A Minute
By Lisa Nielsen
Response
Me half smiling, layering out my scars like pinafores,
You leave your fingerprints on me. Go …
Amy Souza and Ash Martins
Amy Souza
Response
Grief Is
Part I
By Ash Martins
Inspiration piece
Time slows down,
stops entirely,
then somehow starts again in the moments you transition from this life to your next
Grief is
so
unbelievably
heavy
It …
Gary Hewitt and Jonathan Ottke
Jonathan Ottke
“Two Stars have a conversation”
Inspiration piece
Orion’s Boote
By Gary Hewitt
Response
“I am the brightest.”
Alnilam raised a nebulous eye at the unwarranted disturbance. Who the hell invited …
Leslie Grollman and Rusty Lynn
Rusty Lynn
The Great Spirit Is Everywhere
Inspiration piece
After Accretion
By Leslie Grollman
Response
Little Rover beeps to himself …
Amy Souza and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Amy Souza
Response
August Strokes
By Kathleen Finn Jordan
Inspiration piece
Slipping into the liquid aqua glassed pool
These are the days of leisure swims
Summer season — autumn of life
The swish …
Heather Hartman and Amy Souza
Heather Hartman
Response
Orbit
By Amy Souza
Inspiration piece
Everywhere
is here and there
and nowhere you
can be at once
Like those signs
with seven arrows
pointing every
which way
Big town –
Small town –
The moon –
You …
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Jennifer Fendya
Jennifer Fendya
Inspiration piece
Lief
By KJ Hannah Greenberg
Response
Happiness, after all, buds when verisimilitudes and truth form
Matching pairs, when most weet of feelings become integrated,
When both straths and …
Jennifer Fendya and
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Jennifer Fendya
Response
Death by Children
By KJ Hannah Greenberg
Inspiration piece
That morning marked the nineteenth during which Lani was troubled by fever. What had begun as an “innocent” …
Ash Martins and Amy Souza
Amy Souza
Inspiration piece
To the Buoy, and Beyond
By Ash Martins
Response
If I swim to the buoy, I’ll have someplace to hold onto, if I want. But, I …
Anya Mayer and Kamika Cooper
Anya Mayer
“Summer Daze”
Ink on paper
Repsonse
This is for
By Kamika Cooper
Inspiration piece
this is for
attentive eyes and rich brown skin
reminding me of afrika and heart home
i must have …
Kamika Cooper and Anya Mayer
Anya Mayer
“Rainbow Moon Fish”
watercolor with India ink on handmade Tibetan paper
Inspiration piece
Out of Our Element
By Kamika Cooper
Response
told us to stay home
but we did not
taking rockets …
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Amy Souza
Amy Souza
Inspiration piece
Alone with the Sea
By Kathleen Finn Jordan
Response piece
Alone with the sea, the warm sand massaging the feet
From the wonder wander of the traveling …
Tora Estep and Shannon Brown
Tora Estep
“Resisting Expansion”
Collage and acrylic on watercolor paper
Response
Re: Things Governing the Size of My Universe
By Shannon Brown
Inspiration piece
The lenses that I look through, that tell …
Jonathan Ottke and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Jonathan Ottke
BirdParenthesis
Ink on Paper
Response
The Garden
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Inspiration
At last we’re all back here again
The Wall encircling us safe
The birds, the rain, the flowers pose
As the …