I wore nothing but your cigarette smoke,
garlanded with shadow and desire.
As darkness palled and daylight broke,
I wore nothing but your cigarette smoke
and neither of us moved or spoke,
no heat, no flame, no fire.
I wore nothing but your cigarette smoke,
garlanded with shadow and desire.
Shoshana D. Kerewsky (she/her) writes poetry, fiction, lyrical nonfiction, memoir, essay, and haibun. Her work has appeared in fiction international, 96th of October, Sojourner, La Concha, Crab Creek Review, Northeast Journal, Little Patuxent Review, QUIX, Locust Shells Journal, Responsible Travel Guide Cambodia, Which Lilith? Feminist Writers Re-Create the World’s First Woman, Every Woman I’ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers, and elsewhere. Her memoirs are the award-winning Cancer, Kintsugi, Camino and 50 Days in May: Reflections Along the Camino de Santiago. Her novel, The Codex of Christian Surname, is forthcoming. Shoshana teaches with Chuckanut Writers/Whatcom Community College.
Shoshana’s poem “The crisp swssh, swssh” was featured in Autumnal Equinox: Hearth Songs.