14 Jun Poets’ Corner: Rosemerry, Grand Finale for Father’s Day!
Father’s Day is all about celebrating the many ways fathers and father figures make a positive difference in the lives of their offspring – although some are saints; some Santini; some both depending on the day.
Or, as in Word Woman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer‘s singular case, he was simply the man she adored beyond – and within – her words.
Check out Rosemerry’s beautiful tribute below.
And Happy Father’s Day!
Rosemerry & Dad
Last Days
In the end, my father couldn’t
raise his arm to feed himself.
Couldn’t sit. Could barely open
his eyes. But damn, could he love.
He still could curl his thick
fingers around my hand.
Could still say my name.
And though I had never known
a moment when I was not sure
this man loved me, in those last days
I knew it more. Somehow, barely
able to speak, he drenched me
in his devotion. In those last days,
all was reduced to love. Or was it
all was expanded to love? Either
way. Somehow I hadn’t known
how love can take over a body.
A life. The purity of it. The gift.
—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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