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 …
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“The Six Senses Celebrate Rain” * Poetry * Ginger Dehlinger
A curious stillness fills the air, ethereal as a phantom yet a hair’s breadth from corporeal. My brain prickles with elation as all of my sensory receptors anticipate the electric change about to happen. The miracle begins in the distance as a pale, ragged scarf of chiffon. It arrives swollen with liquid silver that rolls off the tongues of aspen leaves, pock-marks the dust, dimples the surface of a pond. My outstretched hands welcome the nourishing moisture. Twirling in crystal …
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“To My Sense of Smell” * Poetry * Gabriela Iacovano
*This poem was inspired by the recent loss of my sense of smell since I contracted COVID-19.* passed the season in rose-muddied berry-tinted dairy-clotted clouds tiny porcelain-and-steam pillars sweet smoke spirals ancient resins candied orange when id never eat it lathering creamy wintry bubbles carrying honeyed mists crushing petals breaking seeds laying ferns on cakes blooming magic feels your absence in the glitter and fog of my soup pot oily kale on broth swirling sea plant emerald frills golden …
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