Comments on: First Smoke https://www.vianegativa.us/2008/12/first-smoke/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:07:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: David Harmon https://www.vianegativa.us/2008/12/first-smoke/#comment-9586 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:32:31 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=3448#comment-9586 Great, but also a little uncomfortable — I’m a 20-year smoker, who’s distinctly ambivalent about it. But I LOL’d at “little smoky thumb”!

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2008/12/first-smoke/#comment-9585 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:11:38 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=3448#comment-9585 Glad y’all liked it. I was literally jotting down the words and phrases that became the poem in between puffs, though I’d thought the poem would be about something else entirely.

I should explain that the tobacco I was smoking is from an ornamental species I grew in my garden a few years back. It tastes much less disgusting to the (very) occasional smoker than a “real” cigarette would.

]]> By: Dana https://www.vianegativa.us/2008/12/first-smoke/#comment-9584 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:41:13 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=3448#comment-9584 “What other parts of my new/old body
have inherited secret flaws?”

Yes. Fantastic line. I love the image, too.

]]> By: Jo https://www.vianegativa.us/2008/12/first-smoke/#comment-9583 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:49:56 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=3448#comment-9583 Fantastic.

]]> By: slynne https://www.vianegativa.us/2008/12/first-smoke/#comment-9582 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:27:16 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=3448#comment-9582 This is great.

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