Katherine's Coffeehouse

The last time I was mostlyalone in the car. The lasttime I drove through the hills of Kentucky, open-eyed infantin […]

This is my advice:slice the morning.Make wedges out of hours,minutes where you could be writing poetry.Carve the fleshy part of […]

Not just a russet of fox cub, but a burnished morning, barely weaned from rain, and a fawn, barely the […]

That Sunday, I was sacrilegious,eager as a sparrow to leave church,peeked around the corners of strict rules,a leaky washing machine, […]

A new draft There is no year like the first in your home, is there? I remember ours. It was […]

When I die,burn me,then bury meunder a lilac bush.Use your handsto claw through the topsoil.Get it under your nails.Don’t worry […]

Branches bow even lower,black walnuts tumbling from their fingersinto the waiting arms of squirrels and earth. It can takehours or […]

I want to be better about saving the planet.Stop ordering from Amazon, and if I have to, choose only eco-friendly […]

A decent spray paint or gloss? (We only need a little for the garden gnomes.)Shampoo bottles with just a few […]

as a reminder, the breeze arrives, unannounced,visitor to a forest that has grown beyond where we can clear it, shuffle […]