Category Archives: poems

maybe this is all you get

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Kat Heatherington

a clip of one of the two poems I performed at this past weekend’s Albuquerque Aerialist Collective show, A Curated Exhibition of the Lost & Found. this video was taken at rehearsal the night before the show. by opening night, … Continue reading →

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maps

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Kat Heatherington

my dad, and the girl scouts, taught me how to read a map. to interpret topography, climb a mountain, return home. to carry a compass at all times, and to use it. if you have this, you can never get … Continue reading →

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Metamorphosis & Mayhem video

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Kat Heatherington

Metamorphosis & Mayhem poetry performance with Lisa Gill, Erin Daughtrey & Tani Arness January 24th, 2016 at Tortuga Gallery

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like the light

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Kat Heatherington

i am almost twilight i am almost home i am cracked by a thousand birds crossing the darkening sky. you are a silhouette you are a stormcloud you are half of every strand of DNA in my body. the storm … Continue reading →

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poetry reading this sunday!

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Kat Heatherington

Join us for a poetry reading featuring new and collaborative work by Tani Arness Erin Daughtrey Lisa Gill and Kat Heatherington 4pm at Tortuga Gallery 901 Edith SE $5 We have a collaborative poem in four voices for the finale … Continue reading →

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what to remember

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Kat Heatherington

remember not that you argued with your sister, but that you sang in the kitchen alone, and the house remembered a sound it had not heard in years. remember fireflies blinking slowly in the roadside dark and a night sky … Continue reading →

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bells

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Kat Heatherington

all night my sleep is troubled by bells. outside, the bronze bell from my wedding, the arcosanti bell, three leaping fish on the clapper, plays in the wind of a passing storm. your love enfolds me from afar, a molecular … Continue reading →

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winter can wake me when you return

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Kat Heatherington

the dawn sky cracks with birdsong. wild geese fly over in a noisy mass, autumn spilling from their wingbeats. you leave my side, your silhouette disappears through the doorway into a grey morning, one shadow vanishing into another. weeks will … Continue reading →

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wingbeats

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Kat Heatherington
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framed in sunlit stitches

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Kat Heatherington

i woke to blood like a waterfall between my legs and a spider newly living on the door. all night i had dreamed you were lying beside me, our bodies soft with sleep conjoined the darkness thickened by our linked … Continue reading →

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