POETS’ CORNER: MORE FROM ROSEMERRY FOR VALENTINE’S DAY

13 Feb POETS’ CORNER: MORE FROM ROSEMERRY FOR VALENTINE’S DAY

Editor’s note: Since Friday, Telluride Inside… and Out has published poems by Word Woman, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer to get everyone in the mood for Valentine’s Day. Here’s the latest – and sexiest – in the series from this beloved poet and friend.

Among Cherries

Oh,
to
straddle
long
rows
of
red
sweetness
and
gather
red
flesh
in
my
hands,
drip
red
juice
from
fingertips,
from
greedy
lips
and
hold
you,
a
sweet
stain
in
my
red
red
thoughts

“Among Cherries” is from Rosemerry’s “Holding Three Things At Once,” 2009, Turkey Buzzard Press.

(Image of Heart in Hand is Rosemerry’s too.)