Bonus: Rosemerry reads a poem she wrote for a dying friend

As Mentioned in the Podcast: In this week’s podcast, we mentioned a poem I wrote about my dear friend Sally Estes when she was told she had three months to live. Here I am reading the poem. It’s also printed below.They Say It’s the Best Bloom in Ten Years         —Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerShe wants to go see the bluebonnets, she says.This is after she tells me they’ve said she has three months to live.And I want to find her vast fields of bluebonnets,acres and acres of white-tipped blue bloom.And I want to send her more springs to see them in,more days to live one day at a time. I want to removethe pain in her belly, the pain that aggressively grows.I want to make deals with the universe. Want to say noto the way things are. I want to tell death to wait.I want to tell life to find a way. I want to hug heruntil she believes she’s beloved. I want to give herthe pen that will write every brave thingthat she’s been unable to say. There are dayswhen we feel how uncompromising it is, the truth.How human we are. There are days when the bluebonnetsstretch as far as the eye can see. There are dayswe know nothing is more important than going to see them,a billion blue petals all nodding in the wind, teaching us to say yes.—forthcoming in Hush, Middle Creek Publishing, 2020 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe