Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Olfactory: A Poem of Odors

 (in other words, it stinks)

asphalt, freshly wet
chocolate

vanilla
musty villa

sawdust
red rust

perfume
sea spume

diesel oil
black soil

cardamom
dark rum

sweat, also

known as perspiration
irrigation

tomato, just picked--
sauce, garlic-ed

wet dog
thick fog

cinnamon
saffron bun
laundry hung in sun
roasted turkey, done

pickling brine
iodine

shampooed hair
alpine air

hills of garbage
boiled cabbage

rosemary
raspberry

red rose
painted toes

horse stall
snow fall

cedar chest
lemon

zest. 


hans ostrom 2010/2020

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