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    Today

    I cannot write. Cannot write, cannot write cannotwritecannotwrite.There is nothing to say, it’s all been read,saidanddone. I cannot writeright: my idealism won’t countenance these mongrel awkwardnesses, won’tafford…… Read more “Today”

    April 10, 2018February 1, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Pores

    The world gets into our poresand writes on us lines with the clay ofearth, warmth of sunbite of wind caress ; sorrow & joy clog our faceswith…… Read more “Pores”

    September 5, 2017February 1, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Narkissos

    sooty secrets buried in black: bleak as beak. --- windswept wood, wild sweet orange, swan's neck swoops. --- carefully curated, beautiful mind hovers over clear blue sky,… Read more "Narkissos"

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    August 17, 2017December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Grey

      https://youtu.be/808nTiXLam8 I’m still in this place. Sometimes it seems I never leave. * Gallery, 2014 Imagine, if you will a gallery piece installed, a row of plants at… Read more "Grey"

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    May 23, 2016December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    The Ever-Processing Machine

    I can’t find my incense. I don’t want to write. I desperately want nothing more than to write. For ever. So then, perhaps I’m just a stymied…… Read more “The Ever-Processing Machine”

    May 13, 2016December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Muse

    you could be heckler harpy or feind; i may lie derelict here but i draw the open sea to me. ~ Kate Gough, March 2015

    June 28, 2015December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Roethke, from ‘The Middle of a Roaring World’

    To Possess or to be possessed by one’s identity?*The self, the anti-self in dire embrace.*Instead of embracing God, he hugs himself.~ Theodore Roethke, The Middle of a…… Read more “Roethke, from ‘The Middle of a Roaring World’”

    June 28, 2015February 1, 2021 by Kate Gough

    A New Proposition

    -- "Faith is not being sure. It is not being sure, but betting with your last cent... Faith is not a series of gilt-edged propositions that you… Read more "A New Proposition"

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    August 1, 2014December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Everything Unresolved

    “. . . I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to…… Read more “Everything Unresolved”

    July 4, 2014February 1, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Cloudy

    c. Mary Kathryn Gough Portrait Black and White Film not sure, 100 or maybe 400

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    May 7, 2014May 7, 2014 by Kate Gough

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    c. Mary Kathryn Gough Instagram

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    May 7, 2014May 7, 2014 by Kate Gough

    Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties…

              I will try at some juncture to say my own bit here, but for now let me say that this is one of the most inspiring…… Read more “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties…”

    September 27, 2013December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Idiolalia Poetry Collection Now Available!

    Hello all 🙂 Thank you all so much for your support. Idiolalia is available straight from the printer now at 3 GBP or 5 USD each (or…… Read more “Idiolalia Poetry Collection Now Available!”

    May 10, 2013December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Barren

    Bent old woman, past all youth, her been- there- done- that — sufficient. “Can’t teach an old dog new tricks, you know”, I know, everyone agrees with…… Read more “Barren”

    July 25, 2012December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Marx & Foucault Meditation

    I was going to write a piece I could be proud of this week. Something perhaps with a twinge of the intellectual child hiding out in my…… Read more “Marx & Foucault Meditation”

    July 18, 2012December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    From For the Light

    Solstice There is little snow on the ground when you begin your morning walk on this the shortest day of the year. This is the season of…… Read more “From For the Light”

    July 3, 2012July 3, 2012 by Kate Gough

    stepping.stones

    A Strategem for Sound Realism For each one of us, the proffered fascade of the ‘Real’ must be apprehended as a substantive, solid box, accepted, and then…… Read more “stepping.stones”

    January 30, 2012February 9, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Further Always

    )i’ve a notion tonight that there’s a further way to live than i do, and that it is far from impossible to live. i’ve always believed so,…… Read more “Further Always”

    January 24, 2012December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

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