Katherine McWilliams's Writings
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Poem
Jun.24.2008
Insecurity is the knife that cuts your skin,
that pinches and tucks and peels, and restructures
the mistakes you were born with.
Anesthesia will delete any memory of
the sharp, cold, silver steel
they sculpt you with.
Plump flesh pops open, bleeds,
but they can stop that.
Just a dab here and there.
You want them to insert clear gel in plastic,
harmless, pillow-...
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Poem
Jun.24.2008
Magma, Volume 25
If you had died in Spain I might
be smiling now. I would have
made lemonade for breakfast
with lots of sugar. Sitting
on the stips of La Iglesia
de la Esperanza I would raise
my lemonade, toast the loss
of you to tourists. I would have
changed the sheets right away
instead of wrapping myself
in your favorite quilt every night
waking to find yesterday...
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About Katherine
Katherine McWilliams was born in Michigan and raised in Texas. Growing up on the Mexican border and spending summers thousands of miles away in small town America provided much material for her stories. She took the academic route and discovered deep into...
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Causes Katherine McWilliams Supports
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation jdrf.org Macula Vision Research Foundation mvrf.org Washington Office on Latin America wola.org/juarez