Fenugreek After a Long Sleep
After a long sleep
half dreaming
scents of youth
aromas drift
baby powder
puppy breath
bar of soap
pine-sol floor
kitchen cleanser
hidden deep
forgotten memory
fenugreek
moist soil
gardenia
mown grass
burnt toast
garlic breath
cigarette smoke
hair spray
old spice
chanel No 5
thinking
wondering
of fenugreek
maple syrup
cream of wheat
hot chocolate
crushed moss
cedar bough
rain clean air
biscuits baking
potatoes mashing
pork chops frying
permeating
enveloping
the fenugreek
bandaid
cough drop
vicks vapor rub
crayon
play dough
bubble gum
musty book
gym locker
pool chlorine
after a long sleep
illusive still
always fenugreek.
Scents are such powerful memory triggers aren't they?
ReplyDeleteAnd once, just once, we succeeded in growing fenugreek. And I cook with those seeds to this day.
Hi Elephant's Child, thanks, I have smelled it before but never grown it but was remembering the scent hence the words, but I also smelled the same fragrance in the woods once and wondered what it was. I must try growing it and also eating it, how do you use it? I read up on how scents can bring back long lost memories, ones we don't even know we remember.
ReplyDeleteI toss the seeds (in generous quantities, into things which are getting a long, slow cook. I have a pumpkin curry recipe which is MUCH better with than without.
DeleteLovely poem, I read it several times and slowed right down and savoured the scents and memories! This was my first introduction to Fenugreek, I hadn't heard of it, but I guess I may have had it in a curry somewhere!
ReplyDeleteHi Peter, thanks so much, I woke up and thought of the fenugreek and then I thought about how certain smells remind us of different things from our past, and I realized how the sense of smell is really not appreciated as much as it should, can't you just savor the scents, especially if you close your eyes and you can almost smell them. I have got to see where I can get some fenugreek to savor it and perhaps I can somehow remember why that scent keeps coming back to me every so often, every couple of years.
ReplyDeleteFunny about fenugreek...beware of Greeks bearing gifts doesn't apply when the gift is fenugreek!
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