Katherine's Coffeehouse

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Zoo Animals

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

The Fall

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

Statement of the Times

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

Step

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

Ostrich

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

Wax Museum, Harpers Ferry

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

Sallie

Through the back window, I saw the first yellow leaf of fall, as I gathered your fur that’s been collecting […]
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Cut

How blunt the scissors used too often. Want to stay sharp? Use only when needed. Refrain from grinding edges, trying […]

Date

When wheat and tomato meet for an early dinner, cheese invites itself, parsley and basil tagging along. Go ahead. Hold […]

Sheaf

Are you starving yet? Has your stomach turned blue and black, inside out with hunger? Have you bruised your back […]
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