Cathexis Northwest PressMay 1Hard Winter; To FrameBy: 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 PressMay 1Smoldering; Greenland Sleeper SharkBy: 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 PressMay 1Luck 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 PressMay 1Our Open ContainerBy: Adriana Stimola You are always exploding, unseeable, coming together, something new, knowable, for now: looming, lined with God’s...
Cathexis Northwest PressMay 1Peregrine; An End to Hunting Poems; MemorialBy: Temple Cone Peregrine peregrine in its stoop radially shearing light ...
Cathexis Northwest PressMay 1Lunar RetreatBy: Tamara Kreutz There is no stopping this slow ebbing, no way to turn back the clock. The forces of gravity are invisible and...
Cathexis Northwest PressMay 1Seven Pillows of WisdomBy: Robert Eugene Rubino with apologies to T.E. Lawrence Poets must seek out and cultivate their contradictions -Orson Welles I. Be...
Cathexis Northwest PressMay 1Listen; Celestial Musing; AbsenceBy: Diane Rosen Listen Listen. The wind won’t stop blowing. Pollen particles settle on cars, in nostrils. Gossamer clouds drift above....
Cathexis Northwest PressMay 1The Edge; Occam's RazorBy: 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...
Cathexis Northwest PressMay 1Afterlife; Proof of Loss; WarmerBy: 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 PressMay 1Metal As Two Objects; Great Grandma Hermine...; WarrenBy: Gabriella Mayer Metal As Two Objects Great Grandma Hermine When Selling Her Husband’s Childhood Home in 1953 Time to sell Ediger--...
Cathexis Northwest PressMay 1Papa's Living Room Air ShowBy: 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 PressMay 1JW Space Telescope StirsBy: Alicia Sometimes how we tell ourselves the bleak expanse of nothingness is something | observe calibrating the past | spatial...
Cathexis Northwest PressApr 1Grendel’s Complaint; AtonementBy: Benjamin Rose Grendel's Complaint Begotten son of the murderer’s mark, Cursed fen-dweller, and warden of the mere Dragging his...
Cathexis Northwest PressApr 1The Mending; Notes from the Fall; The WaitingBy: Thomas Hedt The Mending You loved the peace of your water bound commute Southworth to Fauntleroy, then on to Seattle. With friends...
Cathexis Northwest PressApr 1Easter Redux: A CentoBy: Jean Theron Tourists await the whistle-blow to start The Resurrection— packed churches all over— a beautiful time a lavish tenet an...
Cathexis Northwest PressApr 1CycleBy: Cristina DeSouza I dig holes in the soil with bare hands, repeating myself in abrupt movements, in search for the depths of earth. I...
Cathexis Northwest PressApr 1Approaching the Grand Canyon; The Horizon of the Interior; One More Poem About the Rising TideBy: Will Austin Simescu Approaching the Grand Canyon Today, Notre-Dame burned but I mostly just gazed heavenward. Golden sun splits the...
Cathexis Northwest PressApr 1Politics; Old White Guys on Snowmobiles; The Ring CycleBy: Keith Dunlap Politics We are driven by forces we don’t know Driven by forces as unrelenting as snow A snow that doesn’t stop to count...
Cathexis Northwest PressApr 1when 1 + 1 is more than 2; A Measure of His IntentionBy: Annette Brown when 1 + 1 is more than 2 because there is no video record of his life i remember him in 2 dimensions-- posing on...
Cathexis Northwest PressApr 1Arched Living Room; How I Found Me; Moonlit LeavesBy: Diane Corson Arched Living Room The house feels different now, chairs, a table, bare now, there is a buffet laid with unopened mail,...
Cathexis Northwest PressApr 1THE SUN NO LONGER SETS HEREBy: Lucy Dhar You can be a soothsayer in my hometown. Every single day is like the last and the coming; the air is just as drowsy as the...
Cathexis Northwest PressApr 1Persephone Goes One Last Time; Poem in which I am not a fatherBy: Cecil Morris Persephone Goes One Last Time The last time our Persephone left us for the other world, the underworld perpetually dark...
Cathexis Northwest PressApr 1Mom/the middle at the end; Covid Courtship 2020; By: Lisa Delan Mom/the middle at the end I borrowed your pain and the pills they sent to subdue the orbit of impotence until gravity...