Smell

Can you smell it?
Yes you can.
 Right?

It’s beautiful, all over, engulfing trees, street lamps, sidewalks
   filling all the cracks.
Fill your lungs and all your cavities,
  it’s the smell of the sea.

Breeze carries me a message:
  salts of warm, buoyant and busy waters
   peppers of washed up fish.
 Breathe to the bottom, catch sounds and sights
  round and loving base lines and massages
    of happy toasts, clink.

 mmm it’s delicious, the humid nights of the summer,

 the space whose emptiness is filled
  by the smell by the light
    of excitement
       coming in off the bay.

Oh why does smell have to sit
so arm-in-arm with what just can’t fit?

~ by doug on May 8, 2008.