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      June 13, 2021The Price of NothingRosemerry Wahtola Trommer

      What could be more valuable
      than nothing? The nothing that
      frames “The Thinker,” the nothing
      that holds every bowl,
      every vase, every bust, every thought.
      Let others buy the clay, the steel,
      the papier-mâché. I will be satisfied
      with nothing more than nothing.
      Nothing pleases me. Nothing
      enchants me. Nothing,
      as Heisenberg says,
      has a weight. Just think
      of the space here beside me
      where you are not.
      If someone asks me why
      I have a five-by-five-foot
      empty space taped off in my home
      with plaque that says I Am,
      it is because I am so in love
      with nothing. Imagine it—
      nothing, the color of happiness,
      nothing, the size of love,
      nothing, the shape of god.

      from Poets Respond

      Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

      I have long had a love affair with nothing—and so it was that when my friend Holiday Mathis sent me this article about an Italian sculptor who sold an ‘immaterial sculpture’ for over $18,000, well, it thrilled me. It’s so absurd. I have honored it with a wordless poem now featured in an invisible book on my shelves which you can buy for only $10,000 (OBO)—and with this poem, too.”

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