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    stark feathers rise in rows from soil soaked by rain a farmer's windbreak --- --- c. Kate Gough

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    August 24, 2017December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    F.lush

    First flush of Spring //// green blooms in the arms of the trees en masse, a cloud of //// minty fresh /////////////// newness — Life wakes one…… Read more “F.lush”

    August 23, 2017December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

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    smoking stacks weary my soul. — — c. Kate Gough Photo by Patrick Hendry on Unsplash

    August 22, 2017June 25, 2021 by Kate Gough

    reverberate.verb

    I want to reclaim so many words from the INDUSTRIES of today: — Reverberate is a wild, wide, ecstatic word that could cover the earth with waves…… Read more “reverberate.verb”

    August 22, 2017September 10, 2017 by Kate Gough

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    Big cigars sticking up out of the Earth. — Cold monuments to a more industrial time. — — c. Kate Gough

    August 21, 2017December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Constructed

      you're \ \ \ so carefully constructed flaunting what you \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ think they want to see \ \ \… Read more "Constructed"

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    August 19, 2017December 17, 2017 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

    artless

      Oh! to make art, scintellant polished, lustrous a:blaze. Nothing could satisfy more, could matter more deeply than the warmth of those flames, the flight of those…… Read more “artless”

    September 8, 2015December 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

    Hiccup

    I treat my stories like a bad case of the hiccups, swallowing, swallowing, holding my breath (     ) swallowing, changing position, swallowing… Perhaps this is why I…… Read more “Hiccup”

    June 20, 2015August 18, 2017 by Kate Gough

    note

    i am the accidental occidental afterthought opening unexpected tw!sts; a slight quirk of hand speAks Volumes for ever ~ Kate Gough

    June 5, 2015August 18, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Comma

    “I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”… Read more "Comma"

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    August 1, 2014December 16, 2017 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

    .pearls

    .pearls c. Mary Kathryn Gough

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    June 13, 2014December 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

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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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