Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of numerous books, including fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, and translations. Her wide-ranging body of work includes the coming-of-age novel Leaving Brooklyn; the poetry collection In Solitary; the memoir Not Now, Voyager; and the essay collection This Is Where We Came In. Schwartz is on the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in Manhattan.

Mist

by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Of all she taught me I like best the lore
of spray-on cologne. Forget, she said,
the dabbing at wrists and collarbone.
Spray a column of air in front of you
then walk through it, preferably naked.
Walk through the mist. The mist will cling to you.

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