Yes, smoked. Stuffed with goat cheese & walnuts on a bed of balsamic vinegar -- all warm and quite confident in taste & texture. A model for a fine poem, I'd say. Why? Because the taste is unmistakeable, balanced, and unusual. All the elements work without strain.
friends and their friends walking through the woods
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the bodies of swamp plants stinkweed and rye
the sound of a guitar wailing before bedtime