Cathexis Northwest Press
With Error; Here As I Turn; Water in my Mouth
By: Jessica Rigney With Error You’ll not wish to read these lines For the starlings which have flocked to them And set up chittering atop...
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C.N.P Poetry
Cathexis Northwest Press
May 1, 2022
Hard Winter; To Frame
By: Kate Adams Hard Winter In the woodshed, splitting up their winter wood, he stops a moment, lays the axe aside. A film of sweat forms...
Cathexis Northwest Press
May 1, 2022
Smoldering; Greenland Sleeper Shark
By: Paul Brooke Smoldering Ekki er sopi∂ káli∂ pótt í ausuna sé komi∂: There’s many a slip between cup and lip. Rust-orange and...
Cathexis Northwest Press
May 1, 2022
Luck
By: Emily Boshkoff The first time I met my wife she told me she had the worst luck of anyone she knows. Later, shivering on the sidewalk...
Cathexis Northwest Press
May 1, 2022
Our Open Container
By: Adriana Stimola You are always exploding, unseeable, coming together, something new, knowable, for now: looming, lined with God’s...
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May 1, 2022
Peregrine; An End to Hunting Poems; Memorial
By: Temple Cone Peregrine peregrine in its stoop radially shearing light ...
Cathexis Northwest Press
May 1, 2022
Lunar Retreat
By: Tamara Kreutz There is no stopping this slow ebbing, no way to turn back the clock. The forces of gravity are invisible and...
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May 1, 2022
Seven Pillows of Wisdom
By: Robert Eugene Rubino with apologies to T.E. Lawrence Poets must seek out and cultivate their contradictions -Orson Welles I. Be...
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May 1, 2022
Listen; Celestial Musing; Absence
By: Diane Rosen Listen Listen. The wind won’t stop blowing. Pollen particles settle on cars, in nostrils. Gossamer clouds drift above....
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May 1, 2022
The Edge; Occam's Razor
By: Claire Van Winkle The Edge As I lay in bed suffering the injury of flu you leaned over me, armed with a damp cloth, your thin fingers...
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May 1, 2022
Afterlife; Proof of Loss; Warmer
By: Julie Benesh Afterlife I want to be everything you miss most: your mother's red lipstick; the maid with the soft hands and warm...
Cathexis Northwest Press
May 1, 2022
Metal As Two Objects; Great Grandma Hermine...; Warren
By: Gabriella Mayer Metal As Two Objects Great Grandma Hermine When Selling Her Husband’s Childhood Home in 1953 Time to sell Ediger--...
Cathexis Northwest Press
May 1, 2022
Papa's Living Room Air Show
By: John Coggin A handful of Virginia peanuts then I sank into the sofa’s soft leather, gazed at the Viking longship painting and bull...
Cathexis Northwest Press
May 1, 2022
JW Space Telescope Stirs
By: Alicia Sometimes how we tell ourselves the bleak expanse of nothingness is something | observe calibrating the past | spatial...
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