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  • Featured Poem:


    Rosemary for Remembrance

    
    wild rosemary memories
         of the gardens of northern california
    the sprig she cut for each of us
         after the handfasting
    is on my altar still
         a decade and a half later
    she was roomy and luxuriant
         and he was mushroom puck
    heavy earth mother bosom and
         randy roving pan
    an archetypal pair
         but in our hearts we celebrants knew
              their future would not be kind
    rosemary for remembrance she said
         handing me the cut and fragrant twig
    her eyes wet with newfound love
         as she hugged me to her thick breast
              tears in a lace handkerchief
                   and fingers sweet with spring herb
    a year later
         her pan found me in a beltane bower
    and tossed the condoms aside
    
    

    This poem first published in Off the Coast.


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