Many thanks to California State University, Bakersfield’s art professor Matthew Rich for inviting my creative writing students to collaborate with his art students.  My students wrote poems for his art students to illustrate as blocks of color, and then we reversed the process and my students responded to colors his students generated.  The whole endeavour was a worthwhile exercise in inspiration, connotation, and collaboration.  At the end, thanks again to Matthew Rich, we hijacked a gallery space on campus and exhibited the results.