what_did_you_smell_today
kerry fresh lemon verbena

sweet potatoes with cumin and coriader

chives, with their long green hair

socks

soft, fuzzy sage

14 oz coffee 		210902
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raze peanut butter
slow to leave the knife that spread it
and sleep
slow to leave my fingers 		210903
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kerry peppermint soap

the ocean

old books 		210904
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tender square fields of rotting egg salad sandwiches near van buren township

the stale stillness of a house untouched for three days 		210904
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tender square nag champa in the air while walking down the street 210911
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tender square skunktholomew must’ve gotten frightened last night, because he sprayed his anal glands all over our bedroom windows last night. his thiols scent was so strong i was choking in my dreams, woke up coughing, needing water. eight hours later and he still lingers in the air, just slightly. 210918
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tender square (i shake my fist to my double 'last night') 210918
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tender_square melted crayons in the hallways of the south university galleria shopping center. 220307
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kerry fresh soil. i dole it out in seedling trays, poke a hole, and drop tiny poppy seeds inside. 220308
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epitome of incomprehensibility I misread this as "what did you smell like today" and thought "wet dog, probably." 220308
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tender_square myself, recognizing that i reeked of old lady perfume. this is what i get for trying to make my own signature scent out of fragrance oil. guess i’m a long way off from becoming a “nose.” 220402
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raze distant bacon 220407
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raze food or firewood. i'm not sure which.

(i'm still smelling it now, through my open skylight window.) 		220412
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tender_square an amalgam of flour, sugar, yeast, and milk, expanding in the convection ovens of a nearby bakery, from blocks away. 220415
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raze a skunk. you know, i've never seen one up close. but they know how to make their presence felt. 220505
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kerry lavender soap (today)
bread baking at cacia’s (tonight) 		220505
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tender_square the hot rot of city garbage baking in the southern sun. 220517
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neoncrackle the lilacs we gathered from the yard
tied with twine
the first bouquet of the year
is sitting in a coffee cup with a broken handle 		220517
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tender_square skunk spray on the empty walking trail; my solitary footsteps gravel-scraping, startling as they hid in underbrush, unseen. 220606
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raze petrichor. 220608
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past i thought smelled a poopy diaper. i looked and looked and looked. after about ten minutes i realized it was a bowl that has vanilla yogurt in it that hadn't been washed yet. 220608
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e_o_i A neighbour's barbecue from a half-open window. It smelled smoky. 220608
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tender_square the faint floral of white dogwood. 220701
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tender_square the musk of earth wet with rain. 220706
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kerry garbage rotting in the heat 220707
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raze another skunk warning away a predator, or just letting it fly for something to do. after all, as i learned from "the dark knight", some mammals just want to make the world stink. (that's what alfred told bruce in that movie, isn't it?) 220709
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past the warm heat of kimchi intertwined with the beautiful acrid aroma of sourdough. 220709
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raze an omelette being made. 220710
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tender_square sweet cologne along the deserted sidewalk of herman high. 220715
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raze four breakfast sausages simmering on a skillet. 220716
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raze boiling water. 220805
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raze a probable chemical leak coming from the air conditioner that keeps me from dying in the summer.

it's always some fucking thing. 		220807
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raze watermelon emanating from somewhere beneath my thumbnail, with nothing to explain its presence. 220811
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raze someone who'd smoked so much pot before leaving the house, if you lit them up the entire city would have been high as a cloud inside of two minutes.

at first i thought it was a skunk. 		220830
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raze roasted peanuts still in their shells. 220831
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raze shallots. 220902
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raze the blood of a bisected lemon. 220903
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kerry in a pan on the stove, diced tofu and sweet potatoes sizzling in some bacon grease from the little jar i keep in the fridge. 220903
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raze fabric softener doing a fine job of imitating raspberry jam. 220904
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kerry eggs and rain 220906
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Bizzar a memory.

his scent. i wanted to know what he smelled like for so long, and now i won't let the memory of it fade. 		220907
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raze the sweet scent of fresh sourdough bread. 220912
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raze my own mustard-smeared fingers. 220913
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raze sauerkraut and melted cheese. 220915
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tender_square bleach and barbecue. 220915
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raze phantom pancakes. 220918
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tender_square sawdust. 220918
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tender_square the scent of him on my shirtsleeves, inhaled deeply. 220922
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tender_square garlic and chives on cheddar bay biscuits. 221007
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Soma geosmin 221008
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tender_square cinnamon raisin toast dad ate as he read the morning paper. 221008
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raze perfume so strong it carried from someone else's property to mine. 221010
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raze the stink of a stranger's unwashed feet. 221105
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tender_square dust and blood. 221106
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raze dish_soap washing away this morning's sins against cutlery. 221107
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tender_square bill's aftershave and movie theater popcorn. 221108
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raze orange_juice. 221109
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tender_square mold and molasses. 221110
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raze eggs being fried. 221111
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raze burrito viscera. 221112
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raze toothpaste. 221120
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raze waffles wafting on the wind. 221122
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tender_square rapini ruining everything. 221122
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tender_square yeast and cannabis. 221128
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raze stir-fry sauce. 230103
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tender_square an idling diesel truck and a man waking and baking in the parking lot. 230110
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sameolme heat and cold
sour and sweet
pleasure and pain
garlic and lime 		230110
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sameolme beets me 230110
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sameolme I was never your idea of me
nor were you mine 		230110
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raze the stale stench of burning water. 230118
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kerry coffee brewing. first scent of the day. far too early. 230119
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raze the amber glow of honey garlic sausage. 230120
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raze heaven on a cheese bun. 230128
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raze ginger ale. but only for a single inexplicable moment. 230222
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raze someone somewhere nearby taking advantage of the beautiful day and grilling burgers. 230305
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tender_square mary jane permeating my absent house. 230402
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tender_square the stench of garbage rotting in my tenant's apartment. 230408
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raze easter dinner. 230409
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raze avobenzone. 230410
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e_o_i Muddy dog feet from Shiloh's walk in the park, wood from the branches I was strenuously cutting or tediously sawing (two big branches from the large tree had fallen on the clothesline, dislodging it at one end; today I cleaned up some of the branchiness) 230410
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tender_square gasoline and fresh cut grass. 230415
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raze shit. 230420
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tender_square truck exhaust from a dirty diesel. 230420
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raze the scent of sour cream and onion chips, buttressed by the breeze. 230426
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raze more burgers browning on a stranger's grill. 230427
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raze the rancid meat of my mind. 230516
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e_o_i During this evening's folk dance activity, the cinnamon-y deodorant of the summer school supervisor. I found it funny how he had to sweat to smell good (not that he smells bad otherwise - or not that I've noticed). 230516
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flux ginger, cranberries. weathered wood. raspberries and cream. salted beef. cigarettes and bread and dried oregano. popcorn on the floor. chorizo w/ chocolate powder. 230516
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tender_square a scared skunk and too many overwhelming blooms. 230524
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raze whatever chemical the city sprayed to try and grow back the grass they killed in the park. 230601
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tender_square highly concentrated vinegar, acetone and acrylic nails, nutmeg and mustard from a simmering supper. 230602
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tender_square cigarettes smoked indoors and an attempt to mask the smell with musk. 230603
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tender_square charcoal and cigars. 230606
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raze peanut butter on toast, altered by distance into the aroma of oatmeal. 230708
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tender_square terrible fucking cologne trying to cloak the scent of cigarettes. i honestly don't know which is worse. 230731
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tender_square (i guess i already blathed about that before. seriously though, it's so fucking overpowering it deserves a blathe for every nose hair the stench has singed.) 230731
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raze something i couldn't name. 230828
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raze honey maple ham. 231103
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kerry stale cigarette smoke and smoked salmon 231104
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raze phantom food.

(i'd get more specific, but it's tough to parse what ghosts eat.) 		231105
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raze fresh onion buns. 231118
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raze lima bean soup. 231122
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raze sour cream and onion chips. i'm not sure how the rain did that to the air, but it did. 231201
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Soma Roasting turkey.
Wet asphalt.
Cat paws. 		231202
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Soma Damp foliage
Homeless camp
Testing hall
Oden
Laundry 		231203
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raze my ceramic heater's morning_breath. 231204
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Soma my own bile as I choke back years of bad habits and hours of poor choices 231210
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raze someone barbecuing hamburgers. in january. in ontario.

even my nose did a double take. 		240108
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e_o_i The socks I wore yesterday when my boots were still wet - stinkily redolent of the confluence of feet and storms. 240114
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raze burning rubber. 240115
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raze cherry tomatoes. 240311
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raze the sunscreen on my skin. 240430
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raze cinnamon raisin bagels. 240526
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raze bananas. 240527
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epitome of incomprehensibility More than I did yesterday, now that my nose is less stuffy. Lilacs were sweeter, wet shoes stinkier, dish soap startlingly dish-soapy. 240528
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raze essence of lucifer. 240529
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raze chlorine carried on the wind. 240618
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raze shampoo in a place none should have been. 240808
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Soma Still dripping wet from the shower, I buried my head into my fresh towel and breathed it in. It smelled of linen, soap, and just a hint of bleach. A giddy grin spread across my face, though all you'd never seen it behind all that cotton.

It was reminiscent of nice hotel towels. I was ecstatic, I'd been trying for months to get this scent into my everyday.

I ran the slightly rough cotton across my skin, bristling with excitement. The towels were a touch rough in that way hotel towels can be too.

Small_victories. 		240809
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e_o_i This was two days ago but I forgot to write it.

Walking down a side street, I was surprised by the strong and pleasant smell of tomatoes. I thought it was tomatoes. It lasted for several houses, then faded. I was already thinking of blathering something like, "A whole street smelled like tomatoes - almost."

And then the scent came back, and I looked around and saw a city truck with a woodchipper pass by. So the smell was more likely that - some evergreen tree recently chopped up for woodchips.

(I should know how tomato plants smell. Six of them grow in the garden.) 		240914
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