Authors
Responding
 to Artists

Alena
Guest 

Don
Kirkpatrick

Emily
Inwood

Fauna
Perkins

Jewels
Marcus

Karen
Lewis

Marylyn
Motherbear
Scott

Maureen
Eppstein


Authors Writing 
for Artists

Alena
Deerwater

Chet
Boddy

Fran
Schwartz

Henri
Bensussen

Jan
Edwards

Janet
Ashford

Katherine
Heimann
Brown

Orah
Young

Maureen Eppstein 
"The Tower"

Like a monstrous chess piece,
the tower commands a flattened hill.
Castle or Bishop? Hard to tell.
Below a battlemented top,
stepped buttresses like burly shoulders
flank an elaborate façade
where rows of niches, empty now,
housed stone-carved saints.
Religious faith as battlefield:
under the tower’s ponderous feet
what other, older deities lie crushed?

Back turned against the Medieval wall,
where blotches of lichen make shapes
for imagination to play with,
a woman gazes at a view we cannot see.
Silhouetted in the Gothic entrance arch,
a tourist couple, backpacked, she
with guidebook in hand,
he a walking stick, peruse a plaque.
Beyond the arch, where once a chapel stood,
a rising cloud invades a hazy sky.

Shanti Balsé 
"The Tor"

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