Photography © Jennifer Matthews
Based On A True Story
My knuckles took me for a walk down a pretty street with flowers instead of weeds growing along the curb. I have good balance so me and my knuckles were enjoying ourselves. It was still early morning and the hard heat hadn’t hit yet. Being low to the ground, my nose nearly sweeping it, I could smell all that fresh blooming. Especially the red rose bushes Mrs. Caligori planted to climb her white fence. Also smelled a lot of car grease and a fair amount of dog poop. I can take the good with the bad. Early on I learned how to walk on my knuckles and be flexible. A boy once tied a blue bandana around my ankle during a walk. To be honest that was the least interesting.
Susan Isla Tepper is a twenty year writer in all genres and a Playwright. Her most recent book titled Hair Of A Fallen Angel came out from Spuyten Duyvil in the fall. Clandestine, her darkly satirical domestic comedy premiered as an Equity Staged-Reading at EAG Actor’s Guild Hall Theatre, NYC, in June.
Poet/Photographer Jennifer Matthews’ poetry has been published in Nepal by Pen Himalaya and locally by the Wilderness Retreat Writers Organization, Midway Journal, The Somerville Times, Ibbetson Street Press and Boston Girl Guide. Jennifer was nominated for a poetry award by the Cambridge Arts Council for her book of poetry Fairy Tales and Misdemeanors. Her songs have been released nationally and internationally and her photography has been used as covers for a number of Ibbetson Street Press poetry books and has been exhibited at The Middle East Restaurant, 1369 Coffeehouses, Sound Bites Restaurant in Somerville and McLean Hospital.