Smell
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Multimedia prizewinner, Fourth Genre I am honored to be awarded Fourth Genre’s Multimedia Prize 2025 for my essay “Smell Map of Kyoto in October.”
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published in Aromatica Poetica In dilution, divine; in concentration, rank. A small molecule of carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen, indole is present in flowers but also in decomposing shrimp, sewage, groin sweat, and the breath of aroused lovers. It starts as a faint whiff of horse sweat and stables. On Spring nights when I walk home
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Published in The Cimarron Review, Fall 2020 Here in this cemetery, some of the more elaborate graves have stone tables and round stools. My young sons are quite satisfied that they are for their occupants to play chess while we aren’t looking. On the boundaries of Chinese megacities lie cities visitors never see. Vast cities
Fiona Lindsay Shen 