‘9 of spades’
- Cathexis Northwest Press
- 17 hours ago
- 1 min read
By: J. Artemis Mackay
third’s sticking. this beater’s long since
tied to rust. baptized in brake dust.
bride to a block wheezing its
octanes. wondering if the interstate
will carry a full weight
the full way.
second’s enough for now,
the dead rarely bother a
hearse about the pace.
J. Artemis Mackay (they/them) is a multi-genre writer living in Portland, Oregon. Their creative nonfiction and poetry have been published in Alchemy, Pointed Circle, and The Bellwether Review. Their work plays with boundaries of factual and fictional, incorporating games, jokes, and livening up academic writing. They currently are an MFA creative writing student at Pacific Northwest College of Art.