by Deborah Murphy
tipping point—
more lavender than shadow
on the lilac bush
Deborah Murphy‘s poetry has appeared in Chrysalis Reader, Connecticut River Review, Concrete Wolf, Smoky Quartz Quarterly, Soundings East, and Flash!point. Holding a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA from Tufts University, she lives in Amherst, New Hampshire, where she works as a freelance writer and as a writing instructor.
Kristina Wentzell is a painter known for her vibrant colors and impressionist brushwork. She received her BFA at the Massachusetts College of Art and has studied painting in France, Canada, and Australia. Kristina works in her home studio in Keene, New Hampshire. In the summers, she can be found traveling the roads of New England in the Happy Camper Mobile Art Gallery, a vintage 1966 DeCamp Travel Trailer converted to an art gallery on wheels. http://kristinawentzell.com/
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