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C.N.P Poetry
Cathexis Northwest Press
Dec 1, 2022
A FADING BAND; WE CAN’T GO BACK; EXCERPT FROM A LETTER TO MY MOTHER
By: Claire Scott A FADING BAND Memories illegible whitewashed and weather- bleached by time’s relentless tick My caregiver Talia or...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Dec 1, 2022
December
By: Benjamin Rose An elegy for my youth Would that this house were forever empty And unending Winter never knew thaw, That I might bear...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Dec 1, 2022
Mike Rowe’s Dirty Jobs; All the Dishes; The House
By: Karen S. Henry Mike Rowe’s Dirty Jobs Mardi Gras’s Folly riding in a giant champagne glass at the top of a float with a mace of...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Dec 1, 2022
I Will Grieve Until I Return To Dust
By: Paul Rousseau “A real experience of death isolates one absolutely. The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.” Iris...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Dec 1, 2022
Things I Felt in Algorithms; Handheld Napkins; Amethyst in Marching Chorus
By: Henry Cherry Things I Felt in Algorithms I felt the ardor traction ray bemoaning felt beams of light. Twelve noon for a bus token in...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Dec 1, 2022
CHANGING THEORIES
By: Alita Pirkopf To James Thomson We held all our lives views we didn’t exactly think out, couldn’t even grasp. Or they held us— we, I...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Dec 1, 2022
Exponential Public
By: Anon Baisch The community of windows refracts to an exponential of whiteness :: the angle of concrete pushed against public :: fences...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Dec 1, 2022
Struck; Pass The Flame
By: John Paul Caponigro Struck Reopen a forest in its tomb to pinch a blood-dipped stick then raise it up high, cock it with wrist,...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Dec 1, 2022
My mother cracks watermelon into halves
By: Esther Sadoff scoops out the center until its flesh pales to white. Later sips the cool liquid from the rind. She eats cherries by...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Dec 1, 2022
Things Only My Hairdresser Knows
By: Katy Shedlock It seems that Russia will invade Ukraine and so I feel I should get my hair cut sit in Anastasia's chair at the cheap...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Dec 1, 2022
HOW TO LIVE BY THE SEA; NOT ROSES; SPELL
By: Jill Moffett HOW TO LIVE BY THE SEA Butterfly clam bioindicates like a boss. She’s living that swash zone life that bivalve life...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Dec 1, 2022
Midnight’s Talking Lion and the Wedding Fire (Excerpts)
By: Adam Day Not simply glances, tongue slips, implicit evaluations, stances, “misunderstandings” are the existence evidence which should...
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