The Perfumer

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There, under the arriving sun
Smoke drifts pink into the sky
Not a warning for the sheep's field next door
But a signal at the heart of the world

Works the perfumer, a flurry of gold
His hands a blank kaleidoscope
He coaxes the top, lingers the middle, arrives at the base
A craftsman infinitesimal

It'll take him twenty thousand tries
To form the scent that lingers on your skin
For a moment
A piece of his soul, a bottle on a shelf
And never know his name

I hold in my hand
A model of his house
It's all I can find
From an architectural museum

I wait for replies
to the letters I've sent
The life I have burnt away
The love that I give

It comes only in waves
Then it pulls back the scalp
Of the frothing expanse
Where water goes to die

I wait for reply
As he waits for the air
To kneel at his whim
Such a terrible thing

It'll take him twenty thousand tries
To form the scent that lingers on your skin
For a moment
A piece of his soul, a bottle on a shelf
And never know his name

I won't ever know his name
But I'll know,
Every place that he thinks he has been
A shadow on the world
A brilliant kind of ghost

There, he is
In every face I've ever seen
In every dream I've ever had
Etched on paper and liquid and ash
Beyond the grave

Ambergris and cetalox and costus oil, lilybelle
Mercaptans and cashmeran and
Vetiver, neroli
Hyraceum, labdanum and clary sage, edelweiss
Opoponax, encian and benzoin, monoi

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