Wess “Mongo” Jolley Poet, and Performance Poetry Promoter    The Raw Heart of Endless Fascination

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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

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