I want the word that says/I feel it all, all at once

A poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

When she sat down to write, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer knew that “paradox was at the heart” of the poem she was about to create. But how to find the essence of that paradox was still an open question, even after “the first lines fell right out.”

And “For When People Ask” was going to be the most personal of poems, after all, drawn directly from her own en…