Robin Ward

“We unveil ourselves in the pieces we want others to know” -Lara Prescott

Jasmin Cervantes.  “Yes!” to my pleasure. That’s the season I’m in.

Lara Austin Shoop

Do you ever want to just scream?
Not a shrill blood curdling I’m terrified of the shadow noise creaking figure footsteps in the dark scream.
But a guttural , from the depths of your heart-soul -being -essence scream
coming from
the space you keep tucked away like a note slipped into a dusty book left on the shelf for years
Have you ever stepped out of the room
blinked rapidly
I’m fine
made a joke
looked away brushed it off
dived deep into silence
clenched jaw
closed eyes
pressed too hard pencil to paper broke the tip
Nail marks in your palm keeping you from stepping into that space where no one,
not a single person,
can go
be, witness and not wonder if in fact you’ve lost your mind,
your grip,
your hope,
your faith, your hold,
your self
me either.

Lauren Keim

“Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain sodden clothes, and she felt only joy.” Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April

Josune Aizpurua Zaldua

“Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jackie Cuervo

“Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.” – Tina Turner

Tricia Boutelle

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde