Is it possible with just words too conjure up a smell, <br />Do the words ‘burning flesh” remind you of Hell? <br /> <br />And the mere mention of the breath of a lady’s perfume, <br />Remind your nose of a flower field in June? <br /> <br />Or when you just hear of the train’s dining car, <br />Does your nasal proboscis twitch from afar? <br /> <br />Then there’s the written description of the baking of bread, <br />Sends images of croissants and baguettes through my head. <br /> <br />Does the telling of pipes and cigars evoke smells from the deep, <br />Oh No, it’s my trousers burning as I wake from my sleep!<br /><br />Alan Bruce Thompson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fresh-bread-2/
