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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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