Katherine's Coffeehouse

Recall waves bye like a tired baby, confusion puckering, the right words already asleep, unintelligible taking over. No one seems […]

Remember when the sun offered us just enough to turn snow in the road to puddles? Mom said the wanted […]

In the cinema, pudgy recliner holding me in its vinyl hand, your own hand holding mine – I want to […]

Hope leaked out of the lunch bin, into my laptop bag, messing up the expected. What is this new Monday […]

Always up a hill smell of heaviness and hay the elephant house -Katherine Gotthardt #KatherinesCoffeehouse

These dark, autumn mornings, and yesterday’s indifferent rain, the calendar bothered by subsiding sun, and some made up bullshit – […]

Fear is an ugly book cover. Crack open the spine. Read past the first chapter. Decide if it’s fiction. Or […]

It’s why I didn’t squash the horsefly, merely walked back inside.   It’s why I captured the rat, freed it […]

I’m afraid of ostriches. Not metaphorical ones (though head in the sand can be worse than a rotting pecan disguised […]

By the John Brown museum, vulture bothering something long dead. “Where would your loyalty lie?” reads the placard. I recall, […]