wood chips in the sky
The olfactory bulb has direct connections to the amygdala and hippocampus.
wood chips in the sky 2017.06.24 mid-afternoon, late july, 'sixty-two headed west on a two lane blacktop up on the flattop of north iowa which is coming into view through the window of an IH pickup riding shotgun with my pop aiming for Lott's Creek and that little butcher shop gold asphalt siding gravel parking lot the pickup sliding to a dusty stop burst through the door to wood chips on the floor the fragrance that will stay in my mind to this day the man with the cleaver in the room with large block of wood and the carcass of something spread out on top says hi to my dad as his arm came down boldly to sever a rib from a pig so coldly i remember that whack as we go to the back of the locker and open the safe where we gather the packages and place them in boxes and i struggle to carry them back to the front of this memory triggered by the storm that brought down the limb i am chain-sawing throwing wood chips in the sky
