Photography © Jennifer Matthews

 

Much

Much to remember
So leave it
Sadly reflecting

Bitter truths like tea
Abandoned
A sharp after taste

Your grin comes to call
gutter drips
flatten day lilies

Asking only sun
A soft coo
How pretty you are

 

Susan Isla Tepper is a twenty year writer in all genres, and the author of 11 published books of fiction and poetry and 5 stage plays. Her play Crooked Heart will appear in the Origin Theatre Company’s May Play Festival in NYC. Office, her satirical Novel that takes place in a NYC skyscraper during the covid lockdown has been re-published as a Second Edition.

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.