Words for You 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. Poems by Rosemerry: Repeat: You Are Not In Control  But Sometimes It Takes A Long Time Driving Home From the Restaurant, We Disagree How to Wear Disappointment At Peggy's Memorial Anticipation I want to hold for you the mirror... The Poet Returns to Winter... Transmutation And When We Get to This Point The Practical Wife Goes Shopping For Attention's Sake Second Chance Standing Outside in Cottonwoods, Wind Spiraling All I Want to Say After a Day of Foot In Mouth, I Hear Music Five Windows For My Tombstone And if I Were There Train Spotting The Mudslide Reminds Me Sniff Recipe for a Return Of Course I Expected Good Things from My Savory Flan My Lord, What a Morning Dry Hope Even if the Water is Cold Gloss for Impatient Lovers Dry Time Locked in at 80 on I-70 Eastbound Pleasure Lesson Recordings by Rosemerry:         You Say You Don't Sing?

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Literally Speaking

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.

When It Rains
Clearing the Air
It's Not What You Say
Understanding The Art of Compassion
Don't Read This Column, Please
In Search of Buried Treasure
Watch What You Say
More About Now
Four More Magic Words
So How DO You Like Them Apples?
Companion
Out of the Swamp, Into the McMansion
Thinking about where your dollars are going?
Practicing the Truth of the Imagination
Need Some More Energy? Make Believe
Dear Prudence: The Fall and Rise of the Wise Woman
The Reluctant Disciplinarian: The Truth About Mothering
What Do You Say When Things Just Ain’t Right?
What’s a Metaphor For?
Oui, Si, Ja, Verdadeiramente, Da and Yes, Yes, Yes
You say Goodbye … and I say, Yep, see ya