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    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

    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

    .:Nereid:.

    .:Nereid:. (Rhode, long lost, reaches open Ocean) rocks, roaring on the rough-beaten coast and i, atop the highest possible point — gazing down. a low, roiling roll…… Read more “.:Nereid:.”

    February 17, 2012December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Body

    . how could i love the sea, its change, its flow, its crash and lash, the way it meets the sky and dances beneath boats, uplifting if…… Read more “Body”

    January 18, 2012December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    cummings on love

    this is one of my favorite poems about love. there are more, but this one always comes to mind, and it makes me happy. last thursday was…… Read more “cummings on love”

    January 11, 2012December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Liquid Language

    two o’clock in the morning, dull and grey outside with the soft sound of (hundreds of thousands of) millions of raindrops springing out of the air and…… Read more “Liquid Language”

    November 11, 2011February 1, 2021 by Kate Gough

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    Idiolalia ~
    n. (id-ee-oh-LAY-lee-uh) – use of a private or invented language.

    Ultracrepidarian ~
    n. (ull-trah-crepp-ih-DARE-ee-un) – an ignorant or presumptuous critic; one who gives opinions beyond his knowledge.

    (L. phrase ultra crepidam, “beyond the sole,” reply of Greek painter Apelles to a cobbler.)

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