Presidents’ Day
By Katherine Gotthardt |
And it occurs to me
that the throat of sunrise
has more than a singular sermon,
Ever have a morning
By Katherine Gotthardt |
Ever have a morning where everything
seems to bother you? Where coffee filters
conjoin like slurwords, and not even your longest thumbnail
can separate what has become what?
Painting the Door
By Katherine Gotthardt |
When sometimes you paint a door
because you’ve left it too long,
Meditation on a feather in the vase on my windowsill
By Katherine Gotthardt |
I’m looking at the details.
The smaller picture.
Minutia of goose plume,
What I’m not thinking about
By Katherine Gotthardt |
What I’m not thinking about is the lawn mower,
Wrapping Up 2024 (this is not a poem)
By Katherine Gotthardt |
This morning, as I was logging my weight, figuring out my highest, lowest and current, it occurred to me I ought to sum up the year, or at least the highlights.
Metaphor for 2024
By Katherine Gotthardt |
They should never have planted that tree
so close to the old foundation.