Katherine's Coffeehouse

Thoughts, drafts and poetry in progress. Take a sip.

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Conversation

The future, she said, relies on our stomachs, growling for something other than edible, something younger, something deferring the Earth, […]

Inbox

I got on a list, blown kisses by mega-marketers with a fetish for…construction? Aluminum piping, seamless gutters, steam rollers, ice […]

Submitting

I submitted because I saw ‘defenestration’ in a WWII detective novel, and had to look it up. The same day […]
Katherine's Coffeehouse, poetry, Katherine Gotthardt

Shoe

Now more than then, #Facebook needs #poetry, and art of the masters and royal ladies who dare to dabble on […]

Shutting Down

This cannot be my America. Where bloated power stuffs rags in the mouths of servants, weakened because some bastards removed […]

Comma, And

If I were a comma, would I opt for Oxford use? Would I find AP an ignorant Yahoo, mucking around […]

Monarch

When I look up, I see the wall in front of me, mirrored butterflies my daughter bought me, pressed against […]

2019

What if this year you held your face in your own, warm hands, and said aloud, “You are shamelessly loved”? […]
Hummingbird poem

Posting

Someone on Facebook said, “Bless and release.” I penned it on paper, a post-it note, purple, stamped with a teal […]

Stock

Shifting paper, old handouts, a stack of dog-eared folders, blank, brittle notebooks, pile of unread mail and must-smelling memories, just […]
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