Poems embracing mediumship

and motherhood.

This is the ancestral gathering.

These are the impossible mosaics

that proliferate not by shattered glass

or fastening. They are the facets

of everything that was and is,

the essential tableaux

of whispering and release.

All one side of the curtain.

Rosemarie Koch earned her BA in English and Spanish and MFA in Poetry from Arcadia Univer¬sity. She also spent a year in the British Isles and Europe gathering inspiration while studying at Lancaster University. She has taken numerous supplemental writing courses, including those offered by Rabbit Hill Studio, by the authors Emma Jensen and Cordelia Frances Biddle, and through the University of Wisconsin-Extension.
She has spent her professional career in teach¬ing, design, strategic development, executive support, and operations in education.
Rosemarie has been published previously in Lingerings, Stirring, and Snakeskin.
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