*Aromatica Poetica is honored to present Jim Knipfel’s true story of chasing smell as the first in our Blind Writers Project series, made possible by a generous grant from Awesome Foundation Disability* It was around quarter to seven on a bright and warm July morning in 1996. I’d just dragged myself out of the 23rd Street subway station in Manhattan on my way to work, and was waiting to cross Broadway. Thanks to the Associated Blind apartment building down the …