petrichlor
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Tarmachor
Portmanteau from ichor “tenuous essence”of cement of tar of exhaust particulate of sun-warmed highway in the rain Scent of automobile obsessed Americawhere all the forests have been loggedout and replanted in plantation rows Not petrichlor earth blossom after rainaroma of ground rising like a flowerout of the ground invoked by storm Petrichlor speaks to ancestral… Continue reading
About Me
Mark Folse is a provincial diarist and aspiring minor poet from New Orleans. His past blogging adventures included the Katina/Federal Flood blog wetbankguide on blogspot.com which David Simon told NY Magazine was one of three blogs that helped inform Treme, and Toulouse Street–Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans, which once outranked the Doobie Brothers on Google Search. His work has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Trampoline, Unlikely Stories, Peauxdunque Review, LMNL Anthology, The New Delta Review, Metazen, New Laurel Review, Ellipsis, What We Know: New Orleans as Home, Please Forward, The Maple Leaf Rag IV, and A Howling in the Wires (which he co-edited).
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