Katherine's Coffeehouse

I am watching my farm dog limp and trip on stairs,

I am working on being more intentional, directlyasking the day’s nimbus for its vascular biceps,afternoon for its ability—no, serenity—to sleep […]

Everyone has a tattoo— or two, or three, skin and bank the limit.

This is my postcard to me and you. You are good. Not just good enough. Not okay,

After a while,I am tired of trees.Not the woody-armed entity,bigmouthed and knotty nosed,that watches over our home.Not the longstanding gatheringof […]

My homeland speaks in tongues. Gone too far to roll back vein and gristle.

Day seven, warm rains still come, speckled deer restless and asking to nurse,

We hadn’t known she could scream. Glass shattering wail through slats of a muzzle, two techs holding her down,

Or I could write about white-tailed doe, baby of the family still trying to suckle,

I stumble into it, on it, living room jumbled, Lego under my foot— dark because someone actually turned off the lights.