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C.N.P Poetry
Cathexis Northwest Press
Jul 1, 2022
Question
By: Julie Nelson Walking my dog at lunchtime in rain, suddenly from between two houses, a row of mallards marched across a neighbor’s...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Jul 1, 2022
Trailer Park Weather; Heading West on I-80
By: Steven Monblatt Trailer Park Weather The heat was a blister, swelling, smooth, trailer park weather premonitory, over-ripe, for those...
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Jul 1, 2022
3 Poems
By: Elder Gideon how mom’d rant at the evening news more menacing than Gorbachev’s mark of the beast or looming mushroom skull fire were...
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Jul 1, 2022
FLOODING BASEMENTS
By: Samantha Wright There was a storm in the night, and the limbs were heavy, and the branches fell down. and all the basement floors...
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Jul 1, 2022
Root Canal
By: Zachery Noah Rahn My teeth are holy: they have cavities slit tongue and make a stutter me sing out groans my dentist asks if I still...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Jul 1, 2022
my student asks...; i won’t conceal & bury; soliloquy: brother
By: SE Waters my student asks if audre lorde & lorde are the same person love songs exhaust me, they do, they diminish my credit score,...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Jul 1, 2022
A Quiet Breath
By: Gabriel Ess In night’s supreme stillness, when life sheds its skin Of passionate violence, of tumult and clamor and toil That rages...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Jul 1, 2022
Swivel
By: Frederick Pollack At last I turned it around to face the window. Such wealth! Paired neighbor trees, all trunk – they were here...
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Jul 1, 2022
Evening
By: Marek Kulig Read outside till I could no longer separate the words from the dark. Saved my place with my finger, grabbed my beer, and...
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Jul 1, 2022
Cracks in the Sky
By: Dick Altman Northern New Mexico The day lightning rode clouds from one end of the horizon to another / was the day we in high country...
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Jul 1, 2022
Love Licks the Morning Star
By: Paul Doty Love licks the morning star, illuminates a life where you feel a voice. A rock and roll trope, a bell very early Sunday...
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Jul 1, 2022
Coven of One; Early Astronauts; When Asked if She Regretted
By: Kathleen Holliday Coven of One She laughed when called a water witch, and yet, my mother, a y-shaped stick in her hands, divined...
Cathexis Northwest Press
Jul 1, 2022
incisivus for a seed; of great men
By: Isaac Salazar incisivus for a seed ever hear of a man’s siren call? in the fields of yellow embrace, petal works and such, touched by...
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