Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Read the latest from my poetry blog, “A Hundred Falling Veils“, where there’s a poem in every day. You can use this link to subscribe.
A Hundred Falling Veils
- While Transplanting Calendula June 2, 2026How gently I move the volunteer sproutsout of the potato bed and into another row,careful to gather the fragile roots with a bitof damp dirt, tamping lightly around the slender stem.How fragile it all can be. I think of how tenderlythis morning my husband touched my face,as if too well aware of how a single […]Rosemerry
- Sometimes When You Don’t Know What to Say June 1, 2026It’s because to try to describe this feeling is to render it instantly dull, flat. It’s like when you see a rock on the bottomof the river—all shimmering and bright—but the moment you bring it to the airto share it, what seemed precious becomes cloudy, mundane, a dumb lump,the stuff of filler in a suburban parking lot. And so […]Rosemerry
- Not the Worst May 31, 2026Sometimes the worst doesn’t happen. The flash flood doesn’t flow through the first floor of your home. The bear doesn’t tear into your tent. But sometimes the train comes around a bend, hits a rockfall and comes off the track. Sometimes the rocket explodes in roiling orange fireball of methane fuel.Sometimes the car launches from the highway into the air and […]Rosemerry
- How the Communication Works Now May 30, 2026Tonight I can’t see the shape of the moonbehind a cluster of clouds, but I see the bright radiance seeping through the edges and know the moon is there—that is how it is when I speak out loud to my father and son. Hi Dad, I say. Hi Finn. I love you. I miss you. And aren’t you so proud of our […]Rosemerry
- The Moment I Hope to Remember May 29, 2026sitting on the couch, our bodies lean into each other—two aspen trees, shared rootsRosemerry
- One at Graduation May 28, 2026for every desk,there was a doorway—the threshold now your teacherRosemerry
- The Day Before Graduation May 27, 2026for Vivian Already she knows terrible things happen. Already she knows the pleasure of scramblingin the woods at night with friends and singingtoo loud and making bad choices that are sometimesexactly the right choices. She knows sobs and silliness. She knows how much humans can hurteach other. She knows how a touch or a tenderword erases nothing but […]Rosemerry
- What Goes On May 26, 2026Knowing it will grow back tomorrowdoes not stop me from pullingthe bindweed today. Once I pulled bindweed as if the goal was to clear it from the garden. Now, I pull bindweed as if the goal is to love this act of being alive, this ritual of pulling bindweed, my daughter beside me, soft easy chatter rising between us. There is no […]Rosemerry
- After Watching the Difficult Film May 25, 2026with thanks to the makers of Your Attention, Please I go to the hillside at the end of the valleyand sit beside the gray stone with his name on it.I am in need of deep grounding.My beloved friend comes alongside. We siton the ground beside the grave, frothy white seeds of dandelions clinging to our clothes.We sit […]Rosemerry
- Shh May 24, 2026So soft and sweet the scent of this lilac’s first bloomI stop trying to praise it and instead breathe it in— the eager vibration of hummingbird wingssays everything.Rosemerry