ASHEN burns on ancient brown ash-
TRAYS. Nicotine stains on fingers.
BUGLE warning, hide the stash! Something’s
AMISS! It’s that smoky reek than lingers!
[Turns out that TRAYS should have been TRAIT – my mind playing with homonyms while I wasn’t looking.]
[‘Smoky reek that lingers’ – courtesy of Rupert Brooke]