In a Dangerous Time & Steadfast

by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

  In a Dangerous Time by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer  I think of the bones of the unsung rib cage, the way they protect the heart. How bone, too, is living, how it constantly renews and remakes itself. I think of how ribs engage with other ribs to expand, to contract, and because they do their solid work, they allow the heart to float. This is what I want to do: to be a rib in this body of our country, to make a safe space for love. There is so much now that needs protection. I want to be that flexible, that committed to what’s vital, that unwilling to yield.      Steadfast  by Rosemerry wahtola Trommer  Though a cold wind is howling, we’re not birds without wings— and as long as we have voices let us sing together, sing of freedom, sing what’s true, let us sing.