Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Smells Like” by Emma Rhodes, which first appeared in Poetry Pause in November 2020.

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Smells Like

By Emma Rhodes

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Copyright © Emma Rhodes

First appeared in Poetry Pause in November 2020.

Previously published  in Meltdown Poetry (2020)

Emma Rhodes (she/her) is a queer writer currently living and working in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is the author of the chapbook Razor Burn (Anstruther Press), and the joint chapbook with the Egg Poets Collective All Things to Keep You Here (Qwerty Homerow Chapbook Series). Her work has been published in Contemporary Verse 2, Prism International, Plenitude, and elsewhere.

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