Cave
Cold closes its jaws on sunlight, thin remains of air. That brutal beauty of headstrong hope. -Katherine Gotthardt
Katherine’s Coffeehouse
Cherry Tree
Nighttime cherry tree, impending windstorm. Pang of letting go. -Katherine Gotthardt Painting by Andrew Gotthardt
Burden
Bearing the burden of all the right things, honesty’s fragile fingers. -Katherine Gotthardt Photo by Benjamin Ranger on Unsplash
Growing In
Age grow in at the edges, each experience white, baby-fine. Try not to judge these wispy years while we become
Bedside
Bedside, I hold your plump hand, cold, white thread of foam sewing your lips shut, as if you disapprove of
Placid Bay
for my mother-in-law on the morning of her passing These leaves, white with winter, and those frozen, spiky cones, then,
Comparison
My paltry decades of living and I cannot understand how mountains bear their memories. -Katherine Gotthardt
ReBirth
And there, amidst the mange, a tranquil tuft of growth, baby-haired, white. The whole world hummed, as if it, too,
History of the World
In latter days, the solar- scorched world proved heavy- handed, callous palms swiping back. Retribution. -Katherine Gotthardt
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Cucumber
That garden you decided to plant? How it took time to turn over the soil, get past the sweat, that
Art Making
It is Wednesday, and I put my work on pause. I find my old art bag, carry watercolor pencils to
Remote Work
By Katherine Gotthardt Somewhere in the midst of life’s lessons, I’m forgetting how to speak. I think it might be
Empathy
By Katherine Gotthardt The turtle has been crushed by a mower, life leaving through cracks in its shattered shell, coagulated,
Decisions
By Katherine Gotthardt Somewhere, there’s what I should be doing, somewhere between the smudged edges of you and me, between
Trust Me
I tell you trust isn’t something I lend like a new book you know damn well will never be returned.
Prayer of the Fields
In withering arms of darkness,
dew trying to pass for rainwater,
beaten terrain attempts to rise,
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