Poet with Inspiration is a 16"X20" painting on canvas that depicts a poet, pencil in hand, with his inspiration birds. Part of the series of Orni Sapiens created by Janet Strayer, the poet 's ideas take wing as they gather inspiration from the birds (real or imagined) beside him. Coincidently,  a good book about the art of writing is called "Bird by Bird" (Anne Lamott)