Poem: ‘Anosmia’
A.E. Stallings, 3 April 2025
Without it, what is lemon, what is mint? –Coffee and chocolate, caffeinated brown.Ghosted by a sense that takes no hint,I feel let down.
It’s hardly tragedy that I can’t tellThe milk’s gone off, eggs rotten. It’s no jokeWith other things though – no internal bellThat signals smoke
(The toast burned or the house on fire). SweetI have, and bitter, I have sour...