Cathexis Northwest Press
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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C.N.P Poetry
Cathexis Northwest Press
- 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...
Cathexis Northwest Press
- 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...
Cathexis Northwest Press
- Jun 1, 2022
I Was There When He Died; This Time; This is Not a Love Story
By: C. Eliot Mullins I was there when he died smoothing thinned hair against his spotted scalp He could not speak by then. They say lung...
Cathexis Northwest Press
- Jun 1, 2022
My Lover, the Songbird Who Was Swallowed by a Snake
By: Mikal Wix Her pupils receded into distant stars, pinpoints, divine and deep in their retreat— and her skin seethed with sweet ice...
Cathexis Northwest Press
- Jun 1, 2022
Lying in Bed; Gleaming
By: Kurtis Ebeling Lying in Bed A thin shade glows with a pale yellow, draped softly over panes of glass. Irises drain quietly inward,...
Cathexis Northwest Press
- Jun 1, 2022
infrasonic; i have slept; toward evening
By: George Perreault infrasonic we assume silence to be nothing though the deep basins ring with their hidden acapella and across the...
Cathexis Northwest Press
- Jun 1, 2022
Sonnet for a Crepuscular World
By: Paul Ilechko A vanished sun stained the roughness of their hands as you turned to the door blue against the red brick of the wall ...
Cathexis Northwest Press
- Jun 1, 2022
Sakuras
By: Alexander Lazarus Wolff The sakuras blossom as I pass. Each cherry- colored bud flourishing like the unfolding of a Japanese fan. The...
Cathexis Northwest Press
- Jun 1, 2022
Ode to the Line; Pythagorean Theorem
By: Corinne Hughes Ode to the Line from here to there distance imagined ...
Cathexis Northwest Press
- Jun 1, 2022
Six killed in interstate chain...; The insane history...; 10 things...;
By: Patrick Wilcox Six killed in interstate chain pileup outside Flagstaff We spent entire lifetimes wondering what wounds looked like...
Cathexis Northwest Press
- Jun 1, 2022
Dusk; Driving through Rockbank in March; Horse
By: Anicca Maleedy-Main Dusk A mind like trouser dust and bones that catch the light through gaps in vision, flow of days. Chinks in...
Cathexis Northwest Press
- Jun 1, 2022
Common Courtesy; Citrus Rites
By: M.E. Walker Common Courtesy Did you hold the door Open for me just now? I’m afraid it’s hard To tell on account of your Staring off...
Cathexis Northwest Press
- May 1, 2022
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...
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...
Cathexis Northwest Press
- 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...
Cathexis Northwest Press
- 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...
Cathexis Northwest Press
- 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....
Cathexis Northwest Press
- 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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