New Year Micropoems
More short pieces from January.
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Easter Haiku
For my mother-in-law, Doris “Dorie” Gotthardt, who, battling cancer, sang at sunrise service at Colonial Beach.
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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 –
Ode to Einstein
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” – Albert Einstein
Apologies to William Carlos Williams
So much depends
upon
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Speaking to Specters
by Katherine Gotthardt Through your ageless eyes, I understand your replies to what you most fear: trembling from the tip
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Retreat
Love sometimes requires retreating,
backing up,
reversing the pace
that brought us into spaces
where nothing was ever comfortable,
no memory or seat we could share,
no reserve preserved for those worst hours,
Memory Care
Every second, you give up a little more, stare at the space between us, mumble one-word answers, refuse your favorite