Scented Quote of the Day from Charles Olsen:
Portrait of Charlotte Spaulding by Edward Steichen, autochrome, 1908
The Perfume / of Flowers!
The perfume
of flowers! A haw
drops such odour
it stops me
in the wall
of its fall. Love
arrests....
Lime trees
saturate
the night. We walk
in it.
On a path jonquils
fill
the air. Love is a scent
The perfume of flowers! A quince
drops such odour
it stops one
In the wall
of its fall. The beloved
arrests
Lime-trees
make a smoke
of night. The night of the beloved
is a smoke
Jonquils are knowbby flowers. They send up
in the air
their perfume. In the day the beloved
is a jonquil
