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What I Heard Her Say

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on April 23, 2025| 7 Comments »


                  with thanks to Kayleen
 
 
It is true, you are too much for some—
especially those who have not yet learned
they carry the sea inside them. Especially
those who still want to fit their lives
into small, dry boxes with tight-fitting tops.
But there will be some who desperately need you
to show up every bit as immense as you are,
not one drop smaller, need you to be unashamedly
vast and deep and full of strange things
neither you nor they can understand.
Maybe it’s just one person who needs you
to be that big. Maybe that person is you.

—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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Immensity

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on November 23, 2024| 12 Comments »


 
 
Just past Circus Circus,
I see it down a side street,
the half moon low on the horizon,
nowhere near as bright or big
as the giant clown smiling above me.
I thrill in my certainty the moon
has grown no smaller.
But how real it seems in this moment,
this moment when the moon looks
littler than a soup bowl
for a giant neon clown
on the Las Vegas strip.
It’s enough to make me think
that other things that seem
so large are not. Enough
to make me long to be a student
of perspective. How quickly
the world changes when
we change the way we see it.
How powerful the invitation
to want to see what is true.

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One Immensity

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on November 17, 2024| 9 Comments »


shrugging out of certainty
like a dress shirt too snug—
the sky fits just right

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Vast though it is tanka

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on November 25, 2011| 1 Comment »

our fire may be small
but even
a small flame
holds back
the night

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