With Red Thread
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2023
- Poetry by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Music by Steve Law
Art by Marisa S. White
Video by Tony Jeannette
"With Red Thread" is a track on DARK PRAISE, a spoken-word album that honors the dark and how it opens us to creativity, passion, intimacy, revelation, dreaming, receptivity, self-discovery and connection. As Rosemerry explores in this poem, there are ways the dark sets the stage for intimacy--in this case, a first kiss. "With Red Thread" is available for download on Spotify, iTunes, and more. The album is available for purchase on Band Camp.
With Red Thread
It was Sam who,
that summer before fourth grade,
danced with me
at the church camp dance
and asked me to walk
outside with him.
“It’s hot,” he said.
“Let’s go look at the stars.”
And I, who did not yet
understand the sweet cramping
that tendrilled deep in my gut when
Sam held my hand, said yes.
We stood there a long time,
me looking out at the stars
because that is what
we were there to do.
The night was the color
of Wisconsin violets, crushed,
and Sam, still holding
my hand murmured low, “Oh,
look over there,”
and, when I turned
my feathered head, he leaned
in quick and close
and kissed my astonished lips.
Even thirty-five years later,
I am still somewhat
unprepared as I write
what happened next,
how he sprinted away,
a gleesome hart,
how I stood there, still,
my lips apart, the soft
hands of the night
still holding the most tender
parts of me as they spilled
like fruit no one knew
was yet ripe, and the sharp
stitch of longing
so new to me
sewed itself
into my breath
and never left.
--Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Hi Rosemerry, brings back memories of over fifty five plus years ago.... I love the "soft stitch of night " "sharp stitch of longing..... AH Joanne
❤❤❤ some first kisses are just wonderful ... so innocent
Yes but some less so... HEE HEE ! love j @@rosemerryt
Just breathing this one in. "And never left!:
right--still feel that tug of desire--how it changed things