POETS’ CORNER: A CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM ROSEMERRY

23 Dec POETS’ CORNER: A CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM ROSEMERRY

Editor’s note. No matter how darn organized you are, likely there is at least one person on your Christmas shopping list who has stopped you dead in your (very tired by now) tracks. Or some stocking that is not stuffed full enough. Google “last minute Xmas gifts” and 100s of ideas show up, among my favorites: a gift of your time, like offering to babysit for your friends’ progeny; tickets to a sporting event or concert; a charitable donation in a friend or loved one’s name; a dvd of a favorite TV series (think HBO and Showtime); or one of many books from Telluride’s favorite book emporium, Between the Covers, including the latest book of poetry, #13, “The Less I Hold,” from our Our favorite Wordwoman, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, who offers this shimmering holiday gift from her heart.

A Gift for You My Heart Would Bring
Not the song but
the silence under the song,
not the stars
but the darkness between,
not the kiss
but the longing before the kiss
and the trembling long after, and
not the snow
but the spaces connecting the snow,
not the heart
but the pulse that persuades it to move,
no not the web
but the light in the strands,
not the certainty
but the wonder that birthed it,
and the branches, bare
and the cup, empty
waiting to be filled.