Smell this poem!

The curiousest place I've ever had a poem published has to be with Urban Ganges, "Where Fragrance Meets Poetry."  Not too long ago, Rochak Agarwal, poet and owner of Urban Ganges, a scent diffuser maker headquartered in Uttar Pradesh, India, contacted me with a request: may we reprint your poem, "Flower-picking," in our poetry diffuser collection?  Scouring the internet for subject matter appropriate for a fragrance business, Rochak came across my poem in Verse-Virtual, who had published it back in 2015 or thereabouts. So now my poem gets a second life gracing a bottle of "Pink Peony"!  And that's alongside such notables as Dorianne Laux, Maxine Scates, J.D. Smith, Martin Corless-Smith, and Nicholas Hogg.  Click on Urban Ganges above to order a bottle of "Flower-picking." While you're there, check out these and many other poets, poems and fragrances on offer by this truly creative source!

Read this poem!

Me & Philip Sidney in Old Arcadia

The best paradise lies between

Our ears which is why

You are best read aloud

Best with midnight coming on

Best with my mouth shut.

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