Margot Eyring Collage: Response Plunge Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration Piece Recall: the deep waters Edge of cliff looking and then Anticipating the rush into the depths Poised, set, off into the steep fall Into fathoms …
Poetry by Alisa Bliss, original art by Margaret Mair
View Through The Geraniums By Christina Brockett Inspiration Piece Perspective By Maureen O’Donnell Response Piece Jack The dinghy rocks gently under his weight. Jack nestles into the small cockpit, meant for one …
Resilient Creatures Meet Technology by Kristi Conley A response to: Information Technology By Marla Deschenes The click of the keyboard fills the otherwise silent house This house without heart Without softest …
What the flak am I doing on this Lude-forsaken planet?
What’s Wrong with Right Now_(mp3) By David Berman Inspiration piece Above and Below By Grace Burns Response Party above - Bursts of burnt orange, indigo blue and glowing green illuminate the horizon with their …
Jane Hulstrunk Response Hive By Lauren B. Flax Inspiration Piece They assured me that the hive was dead. With each strike of the sledgehammer, pieces of plaster fall away from …
Pianos by Kristi Conley (Inspiration Piece) Forgotten Music by Marla Deschenes (Response piece) Forgotten music The casualties of faster, cooler cars Rock star hair, and screeching tight guitars. Casualties of nothing more Than popular …
Amanda Whitener Inspiration piece Forever Perfect Val Bonney Response There was a standard, before you left, of perfection surpassing all other degrees of beauty held to be perfect. Plump-cheeked flesh more downy-soft than any peach and rosebud lips; eyes …
Frank Gibson Response Evolution By Neil Ellman Inspiration piece When there is no life In empty seas Desolation lives With possibilities Of single cells That multiply Becoming multitudes Becoming eyes and mouths From fins that swim To feet that …
Frank Gibson Response A Break in the River By DJ Asson Inspiration piece The woman’s pale blue summer dress matched the hair ribbon of the child walking by her side. …
Greg Adkins Dale Leffler Response Piece Hand Over Hand So there it is, the challenge do I still have the hand strength, shoulder strength, the strength of will? Hand over hand, do …
Greg Adkins Dale Leffler Inspiration Piece My Path My path has not been straight. I have stumbled over many stones, lost my way too often to share without shame and …
Withdrawal By Jewel Beth Davis Inspiration piece When the Blue Angel walked into the throne room to check on the Creator, he was concerned to see Him reclining …
Rachel Morton Outcropping Inspiration piece Home By Tori Lane Response In the beige and white matter of the brain, I get it, but it refuses to settle, sink down the line of my spine, travel …
Michelle Wallace “Flow” Response Alice Flows By Rus VanWestervelt Inspiration piece Sunset nears. The …
Michelle Wallace, “Friendship” Response Piece Kim Dollar, “For Michelle” Inspiration Piece Living …
Gwynne Mason He Said He Was No Longer Interested In Me Handmade plant fiber papers made and decorated by the artist, mounted on a handmade silk tapestry, mixed media. Inspiration Piece Sea …
Awake in the Dream (mp3) By David Berman Response Island Dream By Grace Burns Inspiration piece Sunlight piercing through closed, unshaded eyes Quasi-sleep at the edge of the sea Opening eyes reveal azure blues …
Jane Hulstrunk Inspiration Piece Lauren B. Flax Response Piece Flight There are so many ways of taking flight Paper wings turn glassy in the glare of summer day Silky wings fold thickly …
Castle with Sun By Frank Gibson Inspiration Piece A Goddess Once By Neil Ellman Response Where a fortress stood Beside the alien sea Arrogant towers Turrets pointing To the sky As if in prayer Defend their gods And …
Woodland Sprite By BR Belletryst Inspiration Piece Sunset By Carl Rauscher Response She appeared in my room after the nurse departed and sat on the edge of the bed, her …
Photograph By BR Belletryst Inspiration Piece For the Love of Liana By Phyllis Weissman Response Liana stood on the deck of her beautiful home waiting for the love of her life, …
Annie Gedicks Response Fool’s Paradise By Adam Cornford Inspiration piece
Michelle Wallace Inspiration piece More Than My Parts By Kim Dollar Response I’ve been bitten and I’ve been slapped Held more children than fit in my lap Had my belly round and …