Two Ambers Anne Gorrick TWO AMBERS is the ninth in a series of texts and chapbooks published by Metambesen. The reader is free to download and print it without charge or permission. Copyright © 2014 by Anne Gorrick Metambesen Annandale-on-Hudson 2014 2 What are your imaginary numbers, your interior and narrative prompts? after Ambre Russe (a perfume from Parfum d’Empire by Marc-Antoine Corticchiato) Olfactive portraits of great empires To mix history with perfume is sumptuous, baroque One spritz will carry you across a battleground for long distances Spell excess in the languages of Tsars Leather sins like an incense or atonement An authoritative composition, a form of consolation His breath has a velvety agreement, a honey-like obviousness a courageous booziness The light vivifies Underline the large characters and their dark flowers their coriander groove Terrible energy beings endowed by our creator with his announcements We are very busy with our venoms even if they are economically justifiable a vertical horizon closed small around us to undertake congruent angles Are verbs in Italian legally binding? Old South Bend lathes Venus in Capricorn is wireless by my account demotivational early symptoms, funny and hungry Are you very excited in French or Spanish? [The moment we smelled Ambre Russe, we knew that we found our new Holy Grail amber scent / Initially, one is treated to a heady, spirituous accord, supplied by the bitter, salty vodka. Bracing / I'd suggest one avoids spraying Ambre Russe in the car, because there can be breathalyzer issues if stopped by police / I grumbled. Vodka note in a perfume with “Russian” in its title, how stereotypical is that?!] In a thesaurus, look up: delirium synonym definition utterance Now, introduce an unusual or unfamiliar word a prime or composite number an induction bulb 3 intralinks introvert intrinsic Introduce me as a sheath or an essay A couple of years ago while spending my New Year’s holiday in Rome I caught a glimpse through the glass of Hotel de Russie’s hall It was dark and rather cold outside but inside the lights were burning the air seemed warm and full of scents (vodka, champagne and fine foods, smoke and ladies perfumes…) and, most stunningly a weird composition of Christmas trees made out of blond fur (!) towered in the middle… It didn’t scream, "Smell me. I'm rich!" by a shadowy insertion of dark incense The three main elements are in perfect balance and the agreement in sweet restraint This is not an exercise in syrupy mellifluence A touch of rooty tea, the sweet-resinous amber impresses the dusty effect just at the beginning a bit laundry Opulent Packaged bees in their paragraphs Parrot to aviary Parakeet to dog Parakeet to cockatiel Parrot to another parrot Essences, civilizations, gods D’nealian handwriting, bones, emblems or a park filled with winter and turquoise What are the bones that run down your back? There is evidence, data in ancient poems Fat cells, fluid in tissues, fables Ponds filled with frankincense, fractions c-thru rubies, repressed memories and They were excited to show off their empires and their deteriorating pasts Imaginative public lands might be elegant and expensive We are at the end of our intervals now their This perfume saints us into excess As if a river of vodka could make up for leather 4 Champagne and honey commit a crime here, burnt We tilt heavily toward beginnings A trembling constitution of a functional dying serenity deteriorating into which authority has been mixed A honey-like velvet A booziness which acquires the feeling of darkness Exaggerate to fascinate pasts a brown fragrance, a grooved ambergris What if decimals could represent themselves in court? The company welcomes you, your acts of thinking, your school uniform Nerve hallucinations cut with an acrylic knife an epithelium olfactory poetry Portraits of Jesus by Joanne People hope with their grief Girl lyrics pearl, a Rome emergence in Japan Empiricists, prophecy I collect torrents: a deep sea trailer the steels in history, in silk roads Say “petalthrone” instead of “pelvic bone” [Ambre Russe represents a journey across the Russian Empire of the 1800's / Ambre Russe opens with a sharp blast of vodka. A true to life, salty alcohol note with the beautifully rich amber sweetness underneath / Ambre Russe honors the last of the Romanov tsar family. Imagine a formal ball in winter, with music, champagne and fires fired with luscious woods] The pernicious effects on the first born The past castle of shadows walkthrough The created past, a pantagraph Nevershoutnever in a prologue Chords in tense exorcism, a crescent Weather tense verbs Cricket world cup, crackhead obituary, character defamation Crude oil prices Stitches, rootsmagic, polyvore, plankton Create your own museum of superheros A passionate love affair in a freezing worn torn city dark and boozy and sexy and amber and very bittersweet If you like real drama, this is one to sample The list of notes include vodka and champagne, leather, tea, incense, and cinnamon Enough to keep anyone warm all winter 5 This makes me want to build a time machine set the dials, go back and find me a debauched fading Russian aristo, blue-eyed and bitter and play good old fashioned leather games Always remember that boots were indeed made for walking sometimes on each other Sniffing it off my wrist in my candlelit room I could throw vodka around fur-scattered rooms drink champagne to the sound of gunfire and boots marching on stone Ah, amid the glamour of conquest and burning love what else could you possibly want to wear? Puzzlemaker, we are healed by his stripes, his perseverances, his snails A flavorist’s apprentice, an anthropology devoted to antonyms anthem, constants, coefficients The scent peddlers of rain, salamanders, thunder, water, papaya Scrabble meat, scent-ucation lottery Pearls are what percent paradise? Pay homage to the patron deity of Athens Windchill lyrics Her very public properties are elegant, expensive terminate distances If we believe in Russian ambers, then we also admit time the new holy “we” in which we are baroque Even the crimes commit crimes here and they burn specifically Property heavily at the beginning the dying function of peace an authorization that mixes with hot breath Honey is lively in a velvet-like way booziness acquires a density spice and leather connected by an underlined smoke An arcade reference map of her education by Francis Bacon Deception paints their hills An invalid collects on a debt in unusual paragraphs: “How dare you!” A machine healthy rhetoric, an iron triangle, an extreme thirst Is a dairy product also a legal document? What is a spontaneous way to lose weight? His extra heartbeats were dangerous and he wore them like a cheap crown His personality could be summarized in laughter and erratic actions Photograph this poem. Does it have petals? 6 Unboxing ugly mornings How can we simulate the universe? Fractions of angels like denominators may contain state lotteries and solar systems A pure substance has a public good and a private good Is “comprehensive income” also a way of saying “words for beautiful?” Scraper venoms in this castle of imbecility, of young galaxies Hand painted, did you ever eat a pine tree? Incident report flutes filled with supernovas, custarding, fenneling Toast crunch diabetes honey ornaments, Abyssinian musk friendships Vanilla twilight lemon leatherwall [Succumb to Slavic charm: luxuriant and baroque/ Audacious and fatal like the Slavic soul, it opens dry and slightly vegetal, like potato-distilled alcohol / Many beautiful perfumes are an abstract combination of accords. But some gain their stature due to the opposite of balance] To my hips, to Brooklyn, to Catalonia to the Rabbits of New York to sculpture Bonaparte, dynamite fireplaces This is a roulette translation tea rooms and tortoises, a wedding dress chronology Convert to monotheism, assassinations and their signifiers starfall, alignment, a biography in cognac, artifacts The Gordian knot, Hellenism and UFOs Is the great awakening indoors or outdoors? Ambre Russe opens with an accord that smells like bitter dark chocolate It then reveals a heart that smells like whiskey/brandy and some leather When everything else blows away a light skin scent of honeyed and spiced dried tea lingers. Glorious. The signature accord of this scent is dry, hazy brown in texture with a boozy tinge Glambarrel is a powerful and terrible beauty, her shows are secret The only thing I want is to be worshipped on an opposite shore Prefer a vast empire to a world machine or a sick man in Europe An absence of light can be cured with a nest This blinding absence knits and bleaches Money burns and tinctures for an aphrodisiac that tastes of coffee His heart is a pasture filled with coral If Why would we care about a perfume becoming an empire? 7 Excited, representative, accumulative That territorial sense of buildings and their scents The past was big and worsening historical and fragrant If you terminate the distance, the country will be delivered to you directly you To believe in Russian amber is an acknowledgement of time The mattered we: baroque The identical notes join the surplus quota Volts, like a Canadian river’s liquored wealth adjusts to leather as if it was a crime Honey and crime as crime here, it burned as assigned terminate However other, the fragrant material reverberates now first heavy, then expensive and hot The function of peace dies like a constitution After stone and courage in agreement the we find lively elephant velvet ways a willful booziness Write it down in Russian amber Underline the word “blossom” whenever it occurs next to: distance brown, smell, volt, liquor, coriander, groove Hitler’s political system now might be hot pink and lime party personalized, slanged Key sacred texts, a physical template animated The mannerisms in quantum gravities What is the number 1 girl group in Japan? Does it come in aerosol? Being married is like having a controlled substance Is truly magic cookware worth the cost? [Do you like dislike Ambre Russe by Parfum D'Empire because you treat it like the forgotten step-child of the ambre family? I / Ambre Russe - I am devastated (Page 1) / The last days of Tsarist Russia celebrated with an intoxicating blend of leather, birch wood and amber] Was her pregnancy spelled correctly? Will the earth burst next yar? an academy of savage tasteless invalid script iceberg zebras What are your imaginary numbers your interior and narrative prompts? Underwater flower arrangements, oils for the body When filthy rags or moonlight act like verbs Assumptionistas fluent in English, assumed constant and variable time 8 Suspension assassins, sumptuastic Yarn lives like fabric in a sentence The brown texture smells like "grated" dried coriander leaves and cumin in hand You’re smelling them upclose It has that kind of bite as in one can feel the tingling sensation in the nose To this, add sweet powdery tea notes One is reminded of the L'Artisan classic Tea for Two for a moment with the way tea is executed By mid-accords, supple notes of saddle leather along with precious amber exudes a rich powdery glow This persists throughout turning smoky and powdery towards the base This is one of the best offerings by PdE and easily one of the best Amber based scent out there What’s more is the luxurious transitions all brown in texture Silk re-pasts itself in her hands Expendable, they are eating her, they are eight-years-old in dinner French Elegance corals its daylilies, its babydolls Elegy sleeves and erases her enchanted, switchfoot download, on your way She was converted into vapor After all, we’re just accumulations of fragrant materials indicated by our sense of territory The building of an olfactive portrait: the past was big and worsening If you terminate distances you also acknowledge time Legendary Tsars, their volts, their rivers of liquor their adjustment to leather was always a possibility Honey as a crime burned as assigned Peace’s deadly constitutions, its lively elephant velvet ways A willful booziness that gains in density The feeling is very good, a quality of being linedrawn of writing in a blossoming amber We test each other daily for differences in our ingredients How to talk to ghosts and make them talk back? How to teach your heart numbers? Aquarius cloudgames to the tick tock you don’t stop 9 Past life sanctuary, noodles, jars, spirals Participle life regression in La Plata, Crab Orchard [There is such a State in Eternity: it is composed of the Innocent Civilized Heathen and the Uncivilized / The kind of fragrance that can distract me from my perpetual angst / Eau de parfum - elixir opulent, fatal comme l'âme slave. Cet élixir intense où la pureté de l'ambre gris est exaltée par les épices vibrantes, les effluves du thé ...] Five fingered death punch Pea fabric on Judea’s plains The movie is talking to me Awkward games involving awnings Cranberries like geese in a novel When a fox becomes a wolf and we stop fighting for each other When jokes begin to die and plague Inertia momentum textiles, welded symbols Spices in the beginning with booze, then leather, then amber One might feel repelled by it at first but give it a wear and chances are you will be enchanted by the way it performs on skin and the sillage it exudes Piece of art I'd say Thumbs up Pedestal-worthy A little saltier and cheaper smelling FAIL! Funbrain, Farmarama, elderberries Aberdeen fishing hooks, portwood, Rustoleum Bulgarian bone graft, we knew that Christ was raised by gophers We knew that god is the father and atoms have a nucleus because everything works together In the shade of his inferno analysis Know that I am god in Hebrew When will this all buff out? Poems sleeping near caskets like dogs A poem found alive after 41 years Our We have worried ourselves and there is a lot moving around Our names, for example name them completely, these fragrant materials, this accumulation She smells like territory the way her portrait is constructed names The past was large and getting worse 10