Category Archive: SPARK 16

Work from SPARK 16: May 23 – June 1, 2012

Sherri Rigby and Casey Murphy

Sherri Rigby and Casey Murphy

Sherri Rigby Victorious Response   Casey Murphy Unforeseen Complications Inspiration Piece   The Villain stood over the Hero’s lifeless body. “I did it,” he said, smiling. An arrow pierced through him. The Damsel …

 

Lisa Leibow and Erika Levison

Lisa Leibow and Erika Levison

The Brave Hearted Child  (MP3) Erika Levison Inspiration piece (click on the Title to hear the music) . Everything New Is Old Again By Lisa Leibow Response By Lisa Lipkind Leibow Creamed corn …

 

Vicki VanArsdale and Beverly Hilbert

Vicki VanArsdale and Beverly Hilbert

Artist: Beverly Hilbert Inspiration Piece Winter Song By Vicki VanArsdale Response Children raised Husband, gone house  cleaned chores, done Beautiful memories of a life well lived But what about me, where do I fit? With misty eyes and salted …

 

Buzz Kuhns and Betsy Wexler

Buzz Kuhns and Betsy Wexler

Buzz Kuhns Response The Lock By Betsy Wexler Inspiration piece The key slides in easily Not a single second of resistance Fits perfectly. And then I try to turn it It’s so quiet, I’m sure …

 

Amanda C. Brainerd
and Claire Guyton

Amanda C. Brainerd
and Claire Guyton

Amanda C. Brainerd Response Like the Chicken She Is By Claire Guyton Inspiration piece You, there, the lady in the pale green…. Yes, you! Come on down! Instead …

 

Lené Gary and Marla Deschenes

Lené Gary and Marla Deschenes

Lené Gary, Route 2 Response   For the Love of Trees By Marla Deschenes Inspiration piece   My mind cannot comprehend how so many people deny the earth its power Thinking that …

 

Sukia and Helen Lewis

Sukia and Helen Lewis

Sukia Response Getting the Job Done By Helen Lewis Inspiration piece 4:30 pm Tony sits behind the executive desk in his office, perched on the edge of the high-backed leather chair. …

 

Nick Winkworth and Lisa Nielsen

Nick Winkworth and Lisa Nielsen

The Speed of Love Nick Winkworth Response The Vaguery of Us Lisa Nielsen Inspiration Piece There is constant motion There is the speed at which you think you know me There are …

 

Lisa Nielsen and Nick Winkworth

Lisa Nielsen and Nick Winkworth

The Prospect of News Nick Winkworth Inspiration Piece The Jagged Key Lisa Nielsen Response The jagged key’s anxious dance I want a moratorium declared on the loitering of information and the morgue of …

 

Bonnie Lebesch and Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Bonnie Lebesch and Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

 Bonnie Lebesch, I Heard a Lady Singing Response Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, I Heard a Lady Singing Inspiration piece I heard a lady singing in the bathroom at the store. I couldn’t understand the …

 

Marla Deschenes and Lene Gary

Marla Deschenes and Lene Gary

Lene Gary Inspiration River’s Edge by Marla Deschenes Response Chase me down to the river Through the changing trees Where we hid the saddest fishing boat The oars standing at attention camouflaged as …

 

Marla Deschenes and Sukia

Marla Deschenes and Sukia

Sukia Inspiration Goddess Power by Marla Deschenes Response From the part of me that sees from that eye placed so firmly by the goddess The eye of truth that shines as …

 

Grace Burns and Judy Weinberg

Grace Burns and Judy Weinberg

Judy Weinberg Inspiration Grace Burns Response Sole Survivor it was high tide as I whispered forevers enamored footprints and hope filled heart you chanted love never ceasing false footprints and deceptive heart I returned alone at high tide solitary footprints …

 

Jane Hulstrunk and Channie Greenberg

Jane Hulstrunk and Channie Greenberg

Response piece   All of the Personal Fringes of Prayer © KJ Hannah Greenberg   All of the personal fringes of prayer, those whispers, murmurs, rustlings, remain For affixing appreciation to …

 

Kimberly Erskine
and Brian MacDonald

Kimberly Erskine
and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration Piece Hidden Secrets By Kimberly Erskine Response It was midnight on a warm Wednesday evening in May. Most people in Greenwood were fast asleep, but not the …

 

Erika Levison and Lisa Leibow

Erika Levison and Lisa Leibow

Nameless Wanderers (click link to download mp4) “Nameless Wanderers” By Erika Levison Acoustic Song Response House shakes, the body breaks, and mother lies again prostrate On a bleach white hospital bed Parents paint …

 

Hildie S. Block and Helen Lewis

Hildie S. Block and Helen Lewis

Helen Lewis Inspiration   Butterfly Hildie S. Block Response “She says she saw them.” I’ve walked into a heated discussion, and wait to listen.   I stare at my fingernails.  They are a …

 

Tora Estep and Sharon Deegan

Tora Estep and Sharon Deegan

Tora Estep “In the Garden” Response Sharon Deegan Inspiration piece Are you ready to face the feast my soul companion? Pull off the boots made for silent marching through the night? Well …

 

Lisa Kilhefner and Sukia

Lisa Kilhefner and Sukia

Sukia Inspiration Piece Lisa Kilhefner Response No flock On your wing again, I hang on, again, india ink in a fountain pen. I see you only in this way – a bird that …

 

Casey Murphy and Sherri Rigby

Casey Murphy and Sherri Rigby

Sherri Rigby “I Miss Her” Inspiration piece A Traditional Ghost Story By Casey Murphy Response The three girls sat on the floor of the old repair shop in the dark, each …

 

Pharoah Bolding and Jack Hernandez

Pharoah Bolding and Jack Hernandez

Jack Hernandez Inspiration Piece   Pharoah Bolding  Response   There was something about her. He noticed it in the curvature of her back, the neat yet liberated way her hair tickled her …

 

Pharoah Bolding and Nickolas Lotze

Pharoah Bolding and Nickolas Lotze

  Pharoah Bolding Response Attain to Innocence By Nickolas Lotze Inspiration piece Wounded’ness becomes an idea turned vehicular traveling through darkly lit tunnels expanse; wounded romantics rushed stage left exit by blaring ambulance; not for …

 

Amy Souza and
Sean Callahan

Amy Souza and
Sean Callahan

Sean Callahan “Head Full of Bees” Inspiration piece Even Bees Dream of Paris By Amy Souza Response Truth is plural, you said. My truth, your truth, theirs. All of us are right, but …

 

Tim Rodgers and
Christopher St. John

Tim Rodgers and
Christopher St. John

Christopher St. John Inspiration piece   Scars… By Tim Rodgers Response She wore scars so well – that’s what she started to believe, as she faced reflections to see traces of what …

 

Freddy Robles and Paul Hunter

Freddy Robles and Paul Hunter

Freddy Robles Response Seeing a Brush Fire Coming Over the Los Padres Mountains in California, Autumn 2006 By Paul Hunter Inspiration piece He saw the Holy Spirit in the sky, In red, raw …