Viola Weinberg Spencer's poem "The Scent of Paris"
Viola Weinberg Spencer was the first Poet Laureate of Sacramento, CA, serving as a literary ambassador to sprawling Sacramento’s schools, libraries, parks, museums, government lunch hours and nightclubs. With ten books written, Weinberg also founded The Tough Old Broads, a group of four women with 200 years of writing between them. Together, they wrote Tough Enough , available on Cold River Press. In her working life, she worked in radio and TV news, before joining a think tank and conducting private foundation grantmaking. She retired to rural Sonoma County where she writes in a yurt. She is a Glenna Luschei Fellow. The Seductive Scent of Paris Is rarely sensed in this valley town With its bumper-hugging dusty pick ups and Dolled up blondes with pink nails And its boys with caps on backward— Living under the tent of their sagging pants. But this morning, I waken to the smells Of coffee in small cups at a certain temperature— Trees whirring in th...