Sharks In 3D
Will Dowd
Your scent swims through the Omnitheater,
full-bodied
as these holographic
hammerheads.
It guides me through the dark,
your notes of crushed acorns
and burning leaves, up
precipitous steps, in my colored glasses.
It’s how I find you
among school groups
and spectral herring.
In this shark-infested dark,
I could smell one drop of you.
Will Dowd is a writer and artist based outside Boston. His first collection of essays, Areas of Fog, was named a Massachusetts Book Awards Nonfiction “Must Read.” He is the recipient of a WPR Creative Grant from Harvard University’s Woodberry Poetry Room, a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award, and a Key West Literary Seminar Scholarship. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, NPR, Writer’s Digest, and elsewhere.