Ian Spencer Bell is a dancer and poet in New York City.

Photograph by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

Smoke Bushes

by Ian Spencer Bell

I bought two for my wedding,
planted them in pots on the patio by the pond.

It was September. They were purple-black,
not what they said they were on the tag,


frothy fluffy buff-pink summertime bloom clusters,
the darkest a plant can be, just enough purple not to look dead.
People on couch
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