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
- At the Poetry Slam Championship in Kansas August 3, 2026There in the church of poetrybeneath fluorescent lightson a makeshift stage, one naked heartafter another came to the micand through words and breaththey turned wound into blossom again and again until the eveningbecame a giant bouquetof the unbearable being borne.It is a terrible gift to make beauty out of suffering,and this is the gift we most need.But what […]Rosemerry
- Reunion August 2, 2026Thirty million years ago, a number I can say but cannotcomprehend, the mountains where we hiked todaywere covered in a deep layerof volcanic ash which somehow formed the spire of Lizard Head Peak.I am constantly stunned by this worldthat makes and remakes itself out of the same matter.How complicated, yet how simple:we all belong to each other— a thought that, […]Rosemerry
- One Breath August 1, 2026from the same trumpet emerges this song with both legs broken,this song rising on triumphant wingsRosemerry
- One Reflection July 31, 2026standing in the gardenI gaze into the first sunflower—mirror with a golden frameRosemerry
- The Dream July 30, 2026In the small gray boatI floated into the lockand found myself closed inthe giant metal chamber. Water poured down the end wall,and I was terrifiedby the roar of the spillage,aware I had no motor, no sail, no oars, no wayto escape the lock.But inch by inch, foot by foot,my boat was lifted by the growing depths and I was […]Rosemerry
- Newborn Soul July 29, 2026For an hour I heldthe new child in my arms,watched her eyes flutteropen and closed and openand closed again, heldher through the jolt of her startle reflex,held her as she resettled into quiet contentmentin the unfamiliar body. The hands know whatthe mind cannot fathom.Just two days ago, I satbeside an old manwith bright eyes and a thick German […]Rosemerry
- Spontaneous July 28, 2026Somewhere, Warren writes me in his letter,somewhere right now the Lutheransare singing “For the Beauty of the Earth,”and though I am sitting on a plane as I read his words,I am standing in the grand auditorium with the other first sopranos in All State Choirand our voices soar and build and rise as the tenors and altos swell […]Rosemerry
- One on Tap July 27, 2026pouring time into the shape of this question—how do I serve life?Rosemerry
- One Inevitable July 26, 2026he’s a slot canyonjust wanting to hold things close—then, there’s all that rainRosemerry
- Among Strangers July 25, 2026I sat for hours in concourse A,the plane delayed, delayed again,surrounded by a young mother with three hungry children and two elderly couples who played endless rounds of go fish and men in dark suitson their cell phones and girls filming dances for TikTok, when I looked up and saw out the window a double rainbow,ridiculously pretty against the slate […]Rosemerry