AUTHORS RESPONDING TO ARTISTS

Janet
Ashford 

Lea
Callan

Jan
Edwards

Maureen
Eppstein

Doug
Fortier

Nona
Smith

Nancy
Wallace-Nelson

Norma
Watkins

Zelda
Zuniga


AUTHORS WRITING FOR ARTISTS

Henri
Bensussen

Alena
Deerwater

Susan
Fisher

Charles
Furey

Harriet
Gleeson

Jewels
Marcus

Fauna
Perkins

Ginny
Rorby

Donald
Shephard

Holly
Tannen

Jewels Marcus
"Fear"

I didn’t realize how much I loved  fear. 
How like a murderer it is, killing off
all those other insipid feelings
that hide behind veneers of  propriety.

I didn’t know how much  I loved 
cleaning my gutters.
Placing the precarious ladder,
each step a lesson in acrobatics.

Scooping the pungent loamy leaves loose,
fear hammering out heart punching 
adrenal smoke signals, spyglasses and 
Sherlock Holmes hats that delve into
hidden haunts of childhood angst.

I didn’t know how much I loved the fear
of running down abandoned trails,
spider webs clinging to my face
arms flailing madly.

I didn’t realize how much I loved fear
until the hair on my arms raised up
like corpsi from tiny graves 
and kissed the cold spinning sky.

Joe DuVivier
A Certain Point
Oil on canvas

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