Speaking of…
By Katherine Gotthardt |
You’ve come to grips with it: no one’s in the audience. Every day, you hear yourself, reverberating in the mic, […]
Reminder #3
By Katherine Gotthardt |
Open your notebook. Log the times you think you failed. Read it to the wind. -Katherine Gotthardt
On Aging
By Katherine Gotthardt |
Go to the double mirror.
See how age is perfecting you,
every memory creased
Advice
By Katherine Gotthardt |
This is my advice: slice the morning. Make wedges out of hours, minutes where you could be writing poetry. Carve […]
Tattoo
By Katherine Gotthardt |
5 a.m. on a Sunday and I accidentally wake my husband. “Poetry piled up overnight,” I explain. He murmurs, “Death […]
Haiku
By Katherine Gotthardt |
On the sidewalk lone white feather in the wind Angel in the world -Katherine Gotthardt
If it wasn’t for
By Katherine Gotthardt |
If it wasn’t for the way early light met me on the street that morning, or the way April rain’s […]
Evening Haiku
By Katherine Gotthardt |
hook of the moon dangling over a star bait of brighter light -Katherine Gotthardt
Battlefield
By Katherine Gotthardt |
Today, in the battlefield's forest, Manassas gave us gifts: a stream for our dog to swim in, a wooden bridge […]
Crave
By Katherine Gotthardt |
Crave is a five letter word, same as power. The world knows no peace. -Katherine Gotthardt Praying for peace.