“I wish I could bottle up this scent for winter days when it feels like this town will never see sun again.”

Your voice causes a power surge that courses through the veins, feeds off bones, minors in replay.

I haven’t wept for days, only shuffling feet, carrying weights, ignoring the pain, numbing the face. Its all a charade.

I waited, quietly listened, cupped my ear to your mouth, but silence echoed grievously in the absence of sound. It was only warm breath and then emptiness.

I’m from a state that houses too many cornfields and a town that no one takes seriously- in a home where glass cuts hurt less than deeply wounded words.

Your words once a melody, now read like an obituary.

I’m used to falling, calling out timber right before the impact.

I’ve been afraid to look at the woman in the mirror. Everyday she looks less and less like me. It makes me wonder if I’ll ever find my way back home.

If I had a wishing well, I’d wish you well. That the skies hold the key to all you’ve ever wanted, with or without me.

It wasn’t enough fading under surfaces, below waves, swollen pufferfish retracting this inflated love that not even you could believe in.

I hide behind olive branches. So afraid of others knowing what lay beneath the broken rifle. The reality hitting the pavement like bullets that stem from war.

The moon may bring peace, but the sun, she offers resilience.

And when I walk alone, I speak in deaf tones. I’m screaming and no one knows, no one knows. No one pays attention to where the sound goes.

Remember me in burnt coffee mornings, warm hugs, fresh sunday snow. Know that you loved me too cautiously.

The autumn breeze carves out an ache in your memory.

Caution! This vehicle stops quite frequently when overwhelmed.

I miss you a little less each day. You’re just a faded memory now – delicate; tucked away.

I think it’s important for people to be themselves and express themselves through their makeup or their hair or their perfume or whatever it may be.

I never face the day without perfume.

Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

She is the perfume that scents the environment she blooms in.

A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.