THE SMELL OF LEBANON

in balmy

iconic

prague

I offered

my bosom

to a wandering arab student

who spoke

much

of

Lebanon

and

his father’s

orchards

it was

  near

  a castle

  near

  a river

  near

  the sun

  and

  warm

&

where he

bent

and kissed

me

on the swelling

brown

smelled for

a short

lingering

time

of

apples.