Step
By Katherine Gotthardt |
It’s why I didn’t squash the horsefly, merely walked back inside. It’s why I captured the rat, freed it […]
Ostrich
By Katherine Gotthardt |
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 Katherine Gotthardt |
By the John Brown museum, vulture bothering something long dead. “Where would your loyalty lie?” reads the placard. I recall, […]
Sallie
By Katherine Gotthardt |
Through the back window, I saw the first yellow leaf of fall, as I gathered your fur that’s been collecting […]
Cut
By Katherine Gotthardt |
How blunt the scissors used too often. Want to stay sharp? Use only when needed. Refrain from grinding edges, trying […]
Date
By Katherine Gotthardt |
When wheat and tomato meet for an early dinner, cheese invites itself, parsley and basil tagging along. Go ahead. Hold […]
Sheaf
By Katherine Gotthardt |
Are you starving yet? Has your stomach turned blue and black, inside out with hunger? Have you bruised your back […]
Grounded
By Katherine Gotthardt |
How unhappy the worm, eyeing a bird, knowing it cannot fly – unless… Unless. #KatherinesCoffeehouse
The Summer of Our Content
By Katherine Gotthardt |
Now was the summer of our content, made possible by the sun, and here we lay, and here we slept, […]
Concert
By Katherine Gotthardt |
In the 80’s, there, in row 103, me, lighter raised, like everyone else in praise of music. But mine – […]
