Selected Work

          by Rosemary Davis










          Lament

            Each person became a single darkened room - Stephen Dobyns


          the earth broke
          into pieces
          I saw that too

          while the souls
          below shook, and
          everything around
          them

          we didn't know
          what this meant, this
          premonition

          the earth was
          speaking in seismic
          language

          warning that
          all within its
          territory were
          at fault

          and therefore
          vulnerable to the
          changes

          then the low
          howling
          began


          Rosemary Davis is a poet and nonfiction writer with a former life in the visual arts of photography, film and video. Her work has been published in Brevity, PWAlive Journal, Voices of Resistance: Anti-War Art & Words Anthology, and Seeing the World Through Women's Eyes - A Collection of Poems Inspired by the United Nations' 4th World Conference on Women - Bejing, China 1995. She was a poetry participant in the 2004-2005 Loft Literary Center's Mentorship Series and a finalist in the Loft's online Le Poeme Poetry Competition. Rosemary placed 3rd in the Minnesota Literature Council's Annual Essay competition in 2006. She is currently finishing an MFA degree at Hamline University and she served on the 2002 editorial board of Water~Stone, the Hamline Literary Review. Rosemary lives in an 1850s Victorian house in Saint Paul, Minnesota.


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