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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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Late Greening

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on May 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »

 

 

Last year’s wild roses

have not yet discovered

it’s spring—the brambles

are barren and barbed.

What else is there but

to trust that the green leaves

and petals will come? What

else but to stand in our

own barrenness and believe?

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