Poems by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Is Not Breaking by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
April 12, 2026
“How dense it is, / how it carries inside it the memory of collapse. / How difficult it is to move then. / How impossible to believe that anything / could lift that weight.” — Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Misty by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
July 12, 2023
"I worry I can no longer pretend / enough to get through another / year of pretending..." — Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Where We Are Headed by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
April 19, 2021
"At first we just say flower. How / thrilling it is to name."
Talking To My Son Before Sleep by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
March 22, 2012
"I want to be buoyant enough / to carry all of love’s weight." — Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Still Life At Dusk by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
March 21, 2012
"All day you’ve been linked by / the light, but now that darkness / gathers the world in a great black tide, / your shadow leaves you to join / the sea of all other shadows." — Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Poems curated by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
[You darkness, that I come from,] by Rainer Maria Rilke
August 1, 2025
“But the darkness pulls in everything: / shapes and fires, animals and myself, / how easily it gathers them! — ” — Rainer Maria Rilke