Aromatica Poetica is delighted to present the fourth in the Sillage series by Jehanne Dubrow. She is the author of several books of poetry and prose that dance with our heart’s senses, including Taste: A Book of Small Bites, which we highly recommend! Each of the 12 poems are written in the voice of a specific perfume—this one is Fille en Aiguilles[i]—and were begun during the height of the pandemic. For this Sillage series, the poems are paired with a …
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“Recess” and “Dispensation” * Poetry * John Muro
Recess Morning at last giving way to mid- day hours when we descended onto the schoolyard like a squabble of greedy gulls in worn white shirts, clip-on ties and plaid suspenders. Solemn decorum of early morning mass, with its luminous vernal pools of stained glass, pasty amulets and cleaving scents, now set by, we worshipped, above all else, speed and the ability to elude capture, covering the tideless expanse of asphalt as if they were on a slip- stream to …
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“An Ode to Icelandic Tap Water” & Other Poems by Sara Letourneau
An Ode to Icelandic Tap Water I was told to drink you, that you are “completely safe” and “no other tap water on Earth tastes so good,” and I cringed as if I had sipped rancid milk. Where I come from, such water perfumes the skin with trace metals during a shower, and who knows what kind of slow death it inflicts on one’s cells. Regardless, I pour my first glass of you, and you appear as water should, clear …
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