Podcasts

Aging like fine wine? poem by Rosemerry

August 4, 2021

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s poem is about aging and wine. Her humane, specific reflection pushes way beyond the cliche “aging like fine wine.”

July 14, 2021

An instant poem—I hope it amuses you. Triggered when I accidentally found myself on a page of style tips for not looking old.

April 16, 2019

Ursula the cat has an age-related epiphany: she is a third of the way through her life. I must support her through this identity crisis.

March 21, 2019

We will be happy for she was happy/ and strong and funny and old./ A good person who died old/after a single stroke.

August 10, 2018

For decades now the ageing horde
has been a coming thing
looming and glooming and secretly booming
and while I’d been dreaming my life away