Free! Gratis! They're yours! On this page, you'll find many of my recent poems
and columns on language. Reproduce to your heart's content … just keep my name
on the page, please, if you do.
There's
what we say. Then there are the thousands of stories
that swirl beneath the words. Since 1995, Rosemerry has
been writing this column that takes a look at the
underbelly of our language--etymologies, histories and
poetics. The column is now published bi-weekly in the
Telluride Daily Planet. Below are selections from
Literally Speaking.