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A night out laden with Mexican deliciousness: Enchiladas, rice, beans, quesadillas, guacamole, salsa, with a red cup, on a colorful tablecloth.

“A Night Out at the Anosmia Restaurant” & Other Poems by Philip Raisor

aromatica poetica April 28, 2023

A Night Out at the Anosmia[*] Restaurant I accepted the offer from the pale estuary of fingers pinched on two thin slices of jicama tapped lightly with lime and a weathered rim of sweet chili powder. “Gracias,” I said in my best Ricardo Montalbán lip-sink. Friday night at our favorite Mexican franchise. “Can you taste that at all?” she asked. I sucked and replied that even where math was the official language, I was a zero. “Can you even smell it?” I …

One of the resort staff takes on the daunting-looking task of cracking open a fresh coconut for Smelling and tasting. He begins by skewering the hard, brown ball on a sharp steel pole, breaks the fruit in half and then gently carves out chunks of the white meat.

“Smelling and Tasting, Again for the First Time” * Personal Essay * Thelma Fayle

aromatica poetica September 8, 2022

Smelling a molasses-like ooze on the cover of my damp old book made me wonder what it was. I felt sick to my stomach within five minutes; but didn’t connect the two events. I thought I was coming down with the flu. Within 24 hours I was in Emergency on a ventilator and heart monitor. Eighteen years and a million sneezes later (always more than 100 a day); I no longer had a sense of smell or taste and usually …