Tag: pleasure

“Once I came to you as smoke and cognac, / which is to say something to take / into the mouth. I didn’t mind / being pure pleasure…” –“Ambre Narguilé”

SILLAGE #2: Ambre Narguilé * Poetry + Prose * Jehanne Dubrow

aromatica poetica November 14, 2023

Aromatica Poetica is delighted to present the second in a series called Sillage 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 Ambre Narguilé—and were begun during the height of the pandemic. For this Sillage series, the poems are paired with a …

“Goldilocks Ensemble”: a photograph of children’s books such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Blue-Sky Thinking, etc. Three books are open with words blacked out.

“Goldilocks Closet Secrets” * Images + Text * Janina Aza Karpinska

aromatica poetica December 7, 2020

Here are some pages from different editions of Goldilocks from my collection of Goldilocks Files –Treated, or altered pages, in the style of Tom Phillips, which was a technique I chanced upon years ago, and which gave me the words and expression I lacked by any other means. I have chosen those which relate to the senses – taste; scent; pleasure. As a little bit of background on the actual technique: I’m indebted to stumbling across the Tom Phillips technique …