Matthew Levine and Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine
Sunday
Inspiration piece
Squirrel…Lark…Lucky.
by Robert Haydon Jones
Response
A very small, very young squirrel’s frozen profile froze my glance into a
long look and held that pose so god damn long that I banged the half‐open
screen door to my roof deck just to get it going – and, boy, it skittered and
it shocked me with its bushy tail that felt more burly than bushy ‐‐ and I’m
telling you the squirrel was very young.
And then a red-breasted lark somehow flew in the open downstairs door
(our dog is very, very old) and my wife was shrieking like it was a mouse
or me with a fresh sin ‐‐ and the lark flew right on up the stairs and my
shrieking wife followed ‐‐ and the happy ending is the lark pecked at itself
in my bathroom mirror and then flew away out that same screen door that
I had rapped to scare the squirrel. I remember the red breast on the lark
made it seem very vulnerable.
I went on back to my chair and started to finish my morning coffee
when it occurred to me that I was very lucky that the men who
molested me, all those years ago, when I was a boy, didn’t kill me.
The more I think about it ‐‐ the luckier I feel.
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Robert Haydon Jones and Matthew Levine
Matthew Levine
Clear
Response
The Story of My Healing Hands
by J.P. McKenzie
as told to Robert Haydon Jones
Inspiration piece
Exactly a week ago today, I laid my hands on the …
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
and Alixandra Martin
Alixandra Martin
London Dreaming
Oil on Canvas 40″x30″
Inspiration Piece
Umbrella Path
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Response
Like old stones in a river
…..one by one
……….these bright umbrellas
……………form a path across the water
………………..keeping people …
Lisa L. Leibow and Marla Deschenes
Ruthie’s Town
by Marla Deschenes
Response
RUTHIE’S TOWN – a story excerpt
by Lisa L. Leibow
Inspiration
It’s an industrial city, centrally located – an hour from everywhere. On Main Street, …
Marla Deschenes and Lisa L. Leibow
October Trees
Marla Deschenes
Inspiration
MELTING OCTOBER SNOW – a story excerpt
by Lisa L. Leibow
Response
Bettina waited for the elevator, picking at the edges of an old wallet-sized photo …
dani harris and Ainsley Allmark
Ainsley Allmark
Inspiration piece
moon dance
by dani harris
Response
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if not for the Moon
would there be no tides?
no gentle surf to wade in
or raging seas to fear?
.
if not for …
Ainsley Allmark and dani harris
Ainsley Allmark
Waiting
Response piece
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the magic of a day
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by dani harris
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Inspiration piece
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the sun came up
shining her love upon the world
warming hearts and souls
.
clouds passed by
for a very short while
shedding …
Russ McIntosh and Jewel Beth Davis
Russ McIntosh
Dweller Within
Digital composition
Response
Shekhinah Ballerina
By Jewel Beth Davis
Excerpt from novel, Crisis Becomes You
Inspiration piece
Chapter Three
Shekhinah Ballerina
With all your thrones and scepters you may rule the world for …
Irene Plax
Irene Plax
Inspiration Piece
Irene Plax
Response
My tia asked me why I didn’t dance with anyone at the New Year’s Eve party. She told me it’s bad luck …
John Lewis and Helen Lewis
The Matrix
By Helen Lewis
Inspiration piece
You know that bit
in The Matrix
where Neo wakes up
on a bunk bed,
head shaved,
cheeks like rice paper?
Remember how his fingers
scan the back …
Neil Ellman and
Nick Winkworth
Nick Winkworth
Inspiration piece
When the Celebration Ends
By Neil Ellman
Response
We littered the streets
with broken glass
remnants of the night before
the eve of a holiday
none of us could name
making …
Susan Gordon and
Annie Perconti
Annie Perconti
Inspiration piece
On Seeing
By Susan Gordon
Response
I am ravished; I am without eyes,
my hair is hard-wired to strike.
From a distance I am a white seductive, come-hither …
Joan McNerney
and Jane Hulstrunk
Jane Hulstrunk
Inspiration piece
Trees Talk
By Joan McNerney
Response
Recounting tales in circles.
Light rings of summer
dark rings of winter.
They reveal their age.
Telling of barren winters
draped with snowy ice.
Or leafy …
MM Panas and JoAnn Moore
“Paradise Lost”
MM Panas
Acrylic, charcoal on canvas
24″x48″
Response
Shadows of Decay
By JoAnn Moore
Inspiration piece
Like recurring mold on the roof’s eave
that creeps houseward,
symptoms of decay are everywhere.
Non-native ivy suffocates
the …
Lisa Kilhefner and
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Lisa Kilhefner
Response
Unconditional
By Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Inspiration piece
“I wish they would only take me as I am.” Van Gogh
The photo sits, testament to something -
Her smile …
Sandy Coleman and Ray Sharp
Sandy Coleman
Letting Go
Response
Shades of Gray
By Ray Sharp
Inspiration piece
I wrote you a poem
in a small and even script
words like bird tracks
in wet sand
but I inked them …
Connie Begg and Dawn Lewis Cowan
Transplant
By Donna Lewis Cowan
Inspiration piece
It is what you wanted: to be emptied
and filled. Still it surprised you how
easily you came undone, how simply light
laid down …
Barbara McLaren Bever and Edite Haberman
Edite Haberman
Inspiration piece
Barbara McLaren Bever
Response
Unreined Ukraine
Horses once ran free
Between our rivers and the Caspians
Until we tamed them
Like we were later tamed
By Germans, Poles, and Russians
Corralled …
Barbara McLaren Bever and Lynne Elizabeth Heiser
Lynne Elizabeth Heiser
Inspiration piece
Barbara McLaren Bever
Response
Via Angelo
Via Angelo was their world.
Games of tag and hide-and-seek on its cobblestone streets.
Later dressed in communion whites
They paraded slowly …
Judy Weinberg and Grace Burns
Judy Weinberg
Inspiration
Black or White
By Grace Burns
Response
What would it be like
to live in a digital world
where there were no
shades of gray?
right or wrong
true or false
bad or …
Helen Lewis and John Lewis
Louisiana Highway
John Lewis Inspiration piece (music)
Louisiana Highway
Helen Lewis Response
Mile 392
Head
lights
punch through
the darkness.
One of my hands grips
the wheel, knuckles white. The other
cradles a cigarette, lifting it …
Amy Souza and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Amy Souza
“Soler Sequence”
Digitally manipulated image of original artwork –
ink and pencil on paper
Response
Solar Birthing Soler
By Kathleen Finn Jordan
Inspiration piece
Walking thru the summer sun
The sandals flap …
Amy Souza and Amanda Miska
Amy Souza
“Ray of Hope/Desire”
Ink and pencil on paint chip, with mixed media collage
Response
Jacob’s Daughter
By Amanda Miska
Inspiration piece
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In high school, my husband was a wrestler.
It still …
Jane Hulstrunk and
Linda Rhinehart Neas
Jane Hulstrunk
Response
Mint and the Way of the Dog
By Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Inspiration piece
The plant melted down your windowsill.
Green fragrance rubbed between
Inquisitive fingers -
“It’s mint!” I …
Annie Perconti and Susan Gordon
The Ocean Becomes The Drop
By Annie Perconti
Response
Ocean Boy
Susan Gordon
Inspiration piece
I was born of the ocean. I was born of the sea. I clung to a …