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.

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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.