Katherine's Coffeehouse

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

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Or Shall We Call It…

There’s a difference between how the word is used—apathy in the personal sense, indifference, or lack of caring, where you refuse to act, or do the right thing,

Flying Home

The stranger next to me, too close for comfort, I can practically feel his breath on my neck, or is it the air I always have to turn on high? How I hate to fly, I always seem to get searched, and while I
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What I Did That Day

An Ode to My Former Teammates at IBM Heya, so you know what I did? Took the day off to think about what was actually happening, was really going on behind the scenes, behind the screens and the gaslighting. I mean, I got up
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On Being Obsequious

She told me obsequious wasn’t the right word, wasn’t the way to describe that grainy beach in loosely translated terms of something yielding and servile, but here it still is after decades of
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Umbilical

I was born backwards, cord wrapped around my neck, lump on my
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Magpie

My dearly beloveds, I’d like to tell you and the magpie how very much you are needed, how very lovely it is to hear you
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What It’s All About

You see (I seem to start that way a lot lately, don’t I?) what it’s really about is the choices we make, even the littlest ones we CAN make, where we really do have several options,
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And Lately

And lately, I seem seeded in the same old place,
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On Choosing a Tomb

He says he wants to see Solomon's tomb, the Ark of the Covenant, and treasures that turn dragons a shade of muted emerald. Furtively search
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Identity

The way he says identity politics—as if claiming any identity is something moderately pornographic, a Congressional tabloid where everything is dirtier than he is. Never mind his own proud proclamation: White male. Lover of guns
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