Cathexis Northwest PressOct 1, 2021Side by SideBy: Yvonne Morris People aren’t cups, flasks, barrels of goodness. They aren’t a pocketful, plateful, or planeload of malice. Neither are...
Cathexis Northwest PressOct 1, 2021Poem Without Glasses On; Mother; Majestic CongressBy: Kate Kearns Poem Without Glasses On These words are stand-ins for themselves, imprecise letters made from muscle memory, like a meal...
Cathexis Northwest PressOct 1, 2021Il pianto dell’a vite – The Crying VineBy: Jean Passarelli Last autumn was our undoing - a cumulonimbus of fluffy tops and dark bottoms that hit me right in the sky, with a...
Cathexis Northwest PressOct 1, 2021Last Full MoonBy: M. Ocampo McIvor Under fading stars, the dark of night receding, I drink in the setting strawberry moon and toast the newborn day. A...
Cathexis Northwest PressOct 1, 2021Of in-law daughters and mothers; Prayer; Humdrum of my fabricBy: Anita Nahal Of in-law daughters and mothers And so Draupadi’s bridal sari was ensconced in a monsoon drizzle of wishful sequins that...
Cathexis Northwest PressOct 1, 2021Sky-Blue ChevyBy: Samantha Wright There is sky-blue Chevy carving its way across the American summer. I’m right behind it. I follow until it’s a...
Cathexis Northwest PressOct 1, 2021On a Migraine Day I Felt Oddly at One with the SquashBy: Josephine Pino I am the hollow ends of the stems grown out of control. I await the hatchet, forlorn in open mouthed surprise, even as...
Cathexis Northwest PressOct 1, 2021Who Goes First?; Scrolling; When She Looked Over the ExpanseBy: Trapper Markelz Who Goes First? The friend says: I am here for you. I need nothing but your eyes. I will remove the cherry pits just...
Cathexis Northwest PressOct 1, 2021What of My Mother, Elodia?By: Elodia Esperanza Benitez Nettle cried down to Rock And Rock later recalled to Beetle Who visits us in our decay What of our mother,...
Cathexis Northwest PressOct 1, 2021The Frame; Alchemy on 61st Street; Ode for ordinary heroesBy: Olga Dugan The Frame spring cleaning done, redressing walls my niece, and day pupil since illness, early retirement, holds up a...
Cathexis Northwest PressOct 1, 2021YOLOBy: Karen Greenbaum-Maya As though this needed to be said. Even if reincarnated, we are vivid this way only this time. I fill feeders for...
Cathexis Northwest PressOct 1, 2021us? beautiful / prepared for our own demise; relieved to be small...; nothing is stopping usBy: Ash Good us? beautiful / prepared for our own demise Vanport, Ore., Sept. 26, 2020 In “us? beautiful / prepared for our own...