Smoke.

Industrial and

Diesel from double deckers.

Woodbine single, from a jar.

Coal fire, thick and crusted, lit with a spill.

Leaving the smoking chimneys of old Europe.


No smoking on the aeroplane.


Woodburner with a window (fume with a view).

The Buddha  smoke of unenlightenment followed

Turkish tobacco.

Gorse fire to set wet willow,

Acetylene ploughs plumes from iron,

Propane burns a green genie from bronze.


And now the bellows billow smoke from sackcloth to

Work the bees and

Make ash and honey.