Photography © Jennifer Matthews
bee in your hair
we are coasting on a field,
hardly blind
over everything in our path.
the air flung aside like drapery,
the cold going home.
the only detour – our fingers for each other
as we cross the heat-matted road.
as we listen – a stitching in the water, fish
in a blazing row, a liquid feather pulled
from a quiver. these are notes
we can’t unmind. easily, a branch dips its
finger down, pokes the stream’s eye. it is
coasting on a bed of rock. a soft magnetic vein.
something of the past will pass again.
something of tomorrow will whine and die,
and the rain writes the history no one
remembers:
a window song thrown open,
skylight of a tall boulder,
shadow pouring down.
Livio Farallo is co-founder/co-editor of Slipstream. He is recently retired from teaching Human Anatomy and Physiology and Ecology at SUNY- Niagara for approximately 100 years (maybe, more like 37).
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.