Photography © Jennifer Matthews
Swim With Shark Fins
The world is a wash.
It was meant to be that way.
Sandy particle people –
Washed –
by the insanity of the tide
The rush of shifting waves
Care about your drift
Focus on your drift
Like selfish pride.
Time and directions
Will shift how you think
stay strange
drift on
and find a slice of mind
and float
to where you belong.
Think like how you dare
Genuine has become rare
Sparks of us down here,
and sparks
above
up there.
Think along your own lines,
Get smashed in the collapsing barrel –
the thrash
can be good, sometimes.
To know yourself,
hear all the voices.
scrambled in the wash,
from top
to underneath,
and never lose
the shark
in your teeth.
Nicholas Viglietti: “I started writing in High School. After which, I served in the Americorps; two years building houses on the gulf coast, and one year working on a trail crew in the Montana wilderness. I graduated from Humboldt State University and returned to the groove of writing after that, while working various jobs. I write screenplays and short stories too.”
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.