Katherine's Coffeehouse

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Funny Thing

If I had to give myself a name, it would be laughter. That is what I do. I find things […]

Memory Care

Every second, you give up a little more, stare at the space between us, mumble one-word answers, refuse your favorite […]

Azalea

I don't know what you think of white, but tonight, I see azalea petals outdoing the dark, and I think, […]

Wishful Thinking

I’m in awe of chaos and how easily it erupts, how fragile the audience of everything: one wrong word an […]

Speaking of…

You’ve come to grips with it: no one’s in the audience. Every day, you hear yourself, reverberating in the mic, […]

Reminder #3

Open your notebook. Log the times you think you failed. Read it to the wind. -Katherine Gotthardt

On Aging

Go to the double mirror. See how age is perfecting you, every memory creased

Advice

This is my advice: slice the morning. Make wedges out of hours, minutes where you could be writing poetry. Carve […]

Tattoo

5 a.m. on a Sunday and I accidentally wake my husband. “Poetry piled up overnight,” I explain. He murmurs, “Death […]

Haiku

On the sidewalk lone white feather in the wind Angel in the world -Katherine Gotthardt
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