A poem to honor Phenomenal Woman’s Week and event, 3/13, at Ah Haa

11 Mar A poem to honor Phenomenal Woman’s Week and event, 3/13, at Ah Haa

It is a widely held belief that Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is one of the most phenomenal among legions of phenomenal women in the Telluride region: as talented as she is beautiful and as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside. Here is one of a number of original poems Rosemerry plans to read Thursday night at open mic and arts event at the Ah Haa School for the Arts, part of the San Miguel Resource Center's Phenomenal Woman's Week celebration.

Because You Asked for a Light:

A woman is not a light

switched off and on.

She is an unruly photon

with her own sense of arrival.

She settles in the west

when she feels so inclined.

She is incoherent moonlight,

riddled waves on a shoreless sea.

She shimmers as she swims,

her dark surfaces glassine.

She may try to cloak herself in copper,

might seal her words in wet cement,

may damn that relentless shine.

No use.

Rather than forcing herself

into sullen walls she attracts an opening

and escapes, her orange tongue

licking the wind.