'those lingering aromas' timothy r gates, 9/19/2009
coming across an old book,
from Grandpa
old people's smell, still
finding the dugout, forgotten,
immediate residual high
glass bowl, same thing, lost
.004 bud behind copper screen
time-space continuum b.s.
h.s. 'P'hoto
first love
my heart, feel it, still
memory banks, love making
euphemisms, literalisms, synergism
rush out the door, pulled me back in
her amorous remains
smell lasted all day, till renewed walking in the door
baby powder, 153yr old Emerson collection,
drained oil from that first car, lead pencils from my youth,
legal pads of poetry more than two decades old,
then those prompted by sights and sounds, lingering aromas
mind's eye and heart's lens finds no disconnect
came across a piece of hair,
taped to a picture,
one day my boy or girl will think,
my oh my, old people's smell.'
coming across an old book,
from Grandpa
old people's smell, still
finding the dugout, forgotten,
immediate residual high
glass bowl, same thing, lost
.004 bud behind copper screen
time-space continuum b.s.
h.s. 'P'hoto
first love
my heart, feel it, still
memory banks, love making
euphemisms, literalisms, synergism
rush out the door, pulled me back in
her amorous remains
smell lasted all day, till renewed walking in the door
baby powder, 153yr old Emerson collection,
drained oil from that first car, lead pencils from my youth,
legal pads of poetry more than two decades old,
then those prompted by sights and sounds, lingering aromas
mind's eye and heart's lens finds no disconnect
came across a piece of hair,
taped to a picture,
one day my boy or girl will think,
my oh my, old people's smell.'