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Three chocolate raspberry cupcakes with pink frosting sitting on a yellow and green plate floating in an aqua sky with brown swirls. By Alabaster Rhumb for Clarice Hare poetry.

“Psychedelic Hazelnut Cupcakes” & Other Poems by Clarice Hare

aromatica poetica June 4, 2020

Psychedelic Hazelnut Cupcakes An unassuming cupcake! Other cupcakes would call it a scrumptious masterpiece. But this one is just a cupcake! The aroma coming from the cupcake is like the high- ground tobacco grasses that blend with our harmonious autumn lands. It is sweet and sour. Almondy. Cranberry-tinged. Sweet, but savory, and just a little bit juicy. Honey, almond, and cinnamon. Vanilla. Just the right amount of spices in the flavor. Honey, and chocolate. Apples, but I didn’t add any …

“Le Paradis Perdu” (Paradise Lost), by Paul Gauguin, 1890. Colorful painting of the tree and snake and eve in an impressionist symbolist style.

“Of Man’s First Disobedience” * Taste & Smell in John Milton’s Paradise Lost

aromatica poetica February 26, 2020

The opening lines of Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton are perhaps some of the most recognizable in all of western literature, and they begin with taste—the oh-so-delicious taste of good and evil that will get humans kicked out of Eden forever: Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruitOf that forbidden tree whose mortal tasteBrought death into the World, and all our woe,With loss of Eden, till one greater ManRestore us, and regain the blissful seat,Sing, Heavenly Muse,… A quick …