In the Company of Laureates
Join the celebration! I’ll be reading new work at the Spilled Ink open mic Saturday, October 7, so be sure to say hello!
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Divorce
For weeks, you deny you resent me, withdrawing, same as rain, lie holding its breath like heavy August air, you,
Early Onset
What I want to do is stop remembering
the rainy morning you drove 50 miles to my house
to help me find car keys I’d dropped in the trash.
Dear Readers: We are all short on time.
I hate to sound so jaded, but the world we live in, the world that demands so much of our
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Cure
Do not silence your life. Disregard fears of tonsillitis, laryngitis, infection. Sing. Sing what is, what was, what isn’t. Trill
Ode to a Balloon Let Go in London
It’s what happens when an orb flies freely, escaping the glass of a world glaring with human imperfection, industry, idols,
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Mermaid
Women there know how to live, flippers and sunshine and sea, scales adapting to sand or saltwater, tawny skinned, smiling,
Switch
Springtime and everything switches on, electric song of peepers and honeysuckle. Nature’s extraordinary reboot.
More Haiku for National Poetry Month 2023
As we wrap up the month, here are some more small offerings.
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Haiku for National Poetry Month
Poetry based on vss365 and Mindful Writing course prompts
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Easter Haiku
For my mother-in-law, Doris “Dorie” Gotthardt, who, battling cancer, sang at sunrise service at Colonial Beach.
Now Entering Manassas / Próximo Arribo – Manassas
Katherine’s poem “Now Entering Manassas” was the winner of the adult “time capsule” poetry contest. Katherine read her poem April
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Ashby
Massachusetts, Circa 1988 I am thinking about the first time anyone heard the word computer. Was it like when I
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-Katherine Gotthardt
This morning and I’m thinking
of the wolpertinger,
shy but fierce creature
of the night.
Bavarian, so it sounds exotic.
Want
What I really want is this:
to go back to the time on the front lawn,
worn blanket on crabgrass and wildflowers,
baby dolls and tea sets and nothing,
nothing more than ants to worry about.
Elder Care
This morning, the coffee pot looked different,
my husband having switched out
one gadget for another, far too complicated
for such an early hour. And so for a change,
I make tea with a satisfying plop of heavy cream,
squall of sweetener, one sip reminding me of Mrs. Torpey,
and Mrs. McGrievy, and that tall, smiling lady my friend and I visited
For Traci
My dear friend,
this morning at 4
I found myself
breathing into the fur of my dog’s thick neck
and thought, perhaps
I’ve been holding too tightly
to everything that lives –