Olfactory Memory
They are too young to know
how they are fourth-generation
Mountain vacationers, born
Into well-knotted traditions
Like those family expressions
Passed down these generations
Seated around campfires or
Tramping well-marked trails to
Cherished backwoods haunts
Displayed in visual memories
Like classics in art museums
With no comfy gallery benches
But unlike Great Masters’ works,
Campfire smoke does not dull but
Gloss them by olfactory memory.
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