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One Cigarette by Edwin Morgan

EdWilder    21 June, 2024
One Cigarette by Edwin Morgan

No smoke without you, my fire. After you left, your cigarette glowed on in my ashtray and sent up a long thread of such quiet grey I smiled to wonder who would believe its signal of so much love. One cigarette in the non-smoker's tray. As the last spire trembles up, a sudden draught blows it winding into my face. Is it smell, is it taste? You are here again, and I am drunk on your tobacco lips. Out with the light. Let the smoke lie back in the dark. Till I hear the very ash sigh down among the flowers of brass I'll breathe, and long past midnight, your last kiss.


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23/06/2024 Edited   Mark Burkhart Mark Burkhart
Smokey poetry

21/06/2024 Edited   Pen_alias Pen_alias
(Cough)