Samantha Jane Scolamiero

Samantha Jane Scolamiero

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Samantha Jane Scolamiero doesn't have letters after her name to prove she knows anything. She has practiced poetry as if it were medicine on retreat with poets like Tich Nhat Han, UU Minister Ric Masten and Standup Poet Jack McCarthy (who curiously dubbed her a "buzz saw") on Star Island. There she hand bound her first artist's book of poetry and photography "The Nameless Collection" which was purchased at auction by a group of UU patrons who donated it to Star Island's Vaughn library so it might sit alongside the volumes of Celia Thaxter, with whom she has only this bit of geography in common. Samantha performs almost every Wednesday on 'The Third Rail' at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge. She was a member of the 2004 Boston Cantab National Poetry Slam Team. More poetry and photography may be found at her website samanthajane.smugmug.com

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poem: july 2005

i am those

butter and eggs

wild things

struggling

up through the cracks

in the sidewalk

( chalk drawings

running in the rain

drawn then gone again )

water me

take me home

leave more of me

by the side of the road

so i can continue

to bloom

5 poems

The

impish muse

tugs at my

bedclothes

rattles the windows

heats up my sheets

won't let me sleep

until i give in

turn on the light

pick up a pen

and write

5 poems

before he

lets me

go back

to bed