Open the windows, air out the house
a
cloud of strawberry, spreading
filling,
living, growing,
moving
from room to room
a
living presence with us
Lingering
too, on her fingers
in
her hair, on her skin, her clothes
an
aura following her, scent trails;
just
as I had done, long ago
in
my aunt’s small bathroom
Finding,
discovering, sharing
strawberry
spray, liberated
from
a point of origin, spreading,
a
brushfire throughout the house
as
it must have been on Pentecost
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edited
January 14, 2017
A
Cloud of Strawberry – v3
edited
November 1, 2014
A
Cloud of Strawberry – v2
May
13, 2009
A
Cloud of Strawberry
Shanequa
spraying the house about a week ago
My
own adventures with strawberry spray
40
years earlier at my Aunt Ruth Hanford’s house
and
getting caught because that part of the house
then
smelled like strawberry spray…
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