Cigar Scented Book

Pages thick with quality
Lingering cigar smell
Traces of another reader.

I wonder about
the reader I can smell
who left a aromatic clue behind.

Did he enjoy this book?
Why then is it now mine,
This beauty,
This finely perfumed
solid paged
wonder?

I conjecture at its unknown,
guessed at past,
smitten, in love with a mystery,
I plow on,
Pursuing the tale
Perusing the pages
Tasting of the vintage word-wine.