Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (1975 -  ) earned her MA in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of many collections of poetry, including Hush (2020), which won the Halcyon Prize. She sings, teaches, and writes a poem a day. She and her husband own a 75-acre organic fruit farm.

And here I thought the path of love

would look like love. Like kindness.

Like generosity. Like gentleness.

How easily

it shows me I’ve thought of love

as a destination. But here is love

with no expectation. Here is love

with no name, no locus. Here

is love with no face, no shape, no

promise, no vow, no hope.

Here is love as itself, surging

and flowing, love as itself insisting

on love

— Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer from ‘The Path of Love’