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C.N.P Poetry
Gnostic Triptych
By: Elder Gideon ensconced at school he copied masaccio's expulsion humanized the human ...

Cathexis Northwest Press
Mar 1, 2022
Connolly’s Bar, The Little Bighorn Battlefield..., Second Phase Navajo Chief’s Blanket (circa 1872)
By: Gerald Wagoner Connolly's Bar Liberty is stamped above the profile of Noble Savage in feathered headdress on both the liberty nickel...

Cathexis Northwest Press
Mar 1, 2022
Netflix, Hulu; Contingency
By: Robert Ronnow Netflix, Hulu Neftlix, Hulu, autumn elaeagnus thorns, small hairy buds, twigs hyper-lenticelled fruits supposedly...

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Mar 1, 2022
Roar
By: Sabrina Herrmann Yesterday the sun was finally thick enough to swim in, as if you could place a boat in it and coast. I want to wear...

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Mar 1, 2022
SPARE
By: Julie Benesh Spare me the organ recital such music only decomposes I just want to know how not to be ashamed of my panicula my...

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Mar 1, 2022
When You Told Me About Your Garden; Tenderness; Needle of the Heart
By: Alfred Fournier When You Told Me About Your Garden for Bruce When you told me about your garden, the gloom shading you lifted....

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Mar 1, 2022
cheerleader; baby’s breath; hag
By: Christina Litchfield cheerleader all those fine words you sing beneath the field bleachers where you tease the dirty blonde girls...

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Mar 1, 2022
of skin and stone
By: Eve Kagan the sand refuses to be monochrome here where the dunes meet the sea my body pounds rock pink...

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Feb 1, 2022
Loki Ponders Viennese Wisdom
By: HR Harper Loki briefly skims the paperback (meme-bright) Freud, but even with that he begins an after-dinner chat. Loki swims in said...

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Feb 1, 2022
Secrets; Harvest; Foreground
By: Danielle Selber Secrets for my first son “But what was here BEFORE?” My poor little theologist, scientist, contrarian eyes watering...

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Feb 1, 2022
through gnome’s eyes; Ode to Awe; grotto
By: Olivia Loccisano through gnome’s eyes The first time you called me beautiful I rubbed my skin with pepper I wore pink all my life;...

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Feb 1, 2022
The Sighting
By: Megan Walter There’s an opening in the sky, i’ve seen it At first it’s blue—the distant type that belongs in horizons and at the...

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Feb 1, 2022
A Portrait of My Mother; I Tarot You; The Boxed Ballerina
By: Lissa Batista A Portrait of My Mother I’ve tried to keep betta fish twice. Their beauty in the blue prisms of their scales, gulping...

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Feb 1, 2022
Schrödinger's Box, Without a Map
By: George Burns -Schrödinger’s cat in a box is a thought experiment that illustrates a paradox in quantum mechanics that any two quantum...

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Feb 1, 2022
Why Baseheads Are Funny
By: Tim Stiles My boy, Art, was a drug fiend before you thought that was funny: You would be jerked from sleep by wood-scrape-wood...

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Feb 1, 2022
Sweeping Back the Thieves; Milkman; The Wounded King Takes a Knee
By: Ed McManis Sweeping Back the Thieves Snow all night, caught the furnace sleeping, our car with four bald tires, your naked body still...

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Feb 1, 2022
It's August; Rack and Rolls. Thursday Night
By: Tyler Pufpaff It's August and you’re breaking up with your girlfriend. you tell me something you have never told your closest...

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Feb 1, 2022
In the Spirit of Emily Dickinson
By: Karen Carter I’ve never seen God, but I’ve walked a trail, a monarch butterfly flapping in the wind. I’ve never tasted glory, but...

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Feb 1, 2022
SPHINX; WHEN I AM OLD
By: J.R. Solonche SPHINX Do you think that’s all the Sphinx said? What else do you think the Sphinx said? Do you think your guess is as...

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Feb 1, 2022
Winter, My Mistress
By: Will Falk The solstice came but the winter did not. So I asked my mistress how she wanted to be loved. She pulled me into a Colorado...

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Feb 1, 2022
David
By: Everett Roberts I’ve discovered that There is no revelation Learning is seldom something Not mothered in the marrow; it’s how...

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Feb 1, 2022
I’ve read that blue eyes don’t have color
By: Jordan Nishkian Instead, it’s a lack of melanin, translucent atmosphere revealing layered topographies: lapis and cerulean. You used...

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Feb 1, 2022
Self-Portrait
By: Benjamin Rose Chōka Thinning gold hair And ramshackle verses scrawled Half-finished across The pages of old notebooks Conspire to...

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Feb 1, 2022
Puppy Love
By: Alicia Ong By conscription of my birth, science is a permanent trope. A Sino-Atrial node in overdrive has no time for corporeal cries...

Cathexis Northwest Press
Jan 1, 2022
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