smoke rising from a campfire deep scent of the seasons sugar sprinkled on bread and butter fingers interlacing hands threads woven into a scarf of black and red, brown and yellow silk against the face french curves inside themselves dangling at the breasts a crest of tender nakedness touch the soul, kiss the sky sweet Marys in a glass of wine
Larry Smith is a poet, fiction writer and biographer of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Patchen. His most recent work is Thoreau’s Lost Journal: Poems and Tu Fu Comes to America. He’s a professor emeritus of Bowling Green State University in Ohio and director of Bottom Dog Press. He and his wife live along the shores of Lake Erie in Ohio.
