@cathycobalt.bsky.social
I am a poetry author, a fiction writer, a voracious reader, and a tea drinker extraordinaire. I am thrilled to announce that my poem "Big Bad Heartburn" is going to be published in the Winter Solstice issue of Eternal Haunted Summer eternalhauntedsumme
@cathycobalt.bsky.social PinnedMy queer religious trauma poetry chapbook from Parlyaree Press, Post Humanist Religion, is now available online wherever books are sold!
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@cathycobalt.bsky.socialIt's my release day! My queer religious trauma poetry chapbook Post Humanist Religion is now available online wherever books are sold!
#booktwt #poetry #poetrylovers #writingcommunity #feminist
@cathycobalt.bsky.socialI cannot be more pleased to have worked with this fantastic press to bring this book out into the world. Thank you to everybody at Parlyaree Press!
#booktwt #poetry #poetrylovers #writingcommunity #feminist
@cathycobalt.bsky.social"The woman with the cup of ashes and I laugh
as she tries to figure out what to do
with the former Catholic, turned Nondenominational Christian, turned Theist
who is wading through a familiar but forgotten sea of sanctity and ceremony."
@cathycobalt.bsky.socialEvery afternoon I pass a bridge where Death lives underneath
She is not the horrendous monstrosity Milton described
Daughter of Life and Time
she lives naked and alone without shame.- "Lady Death"
@cathycobalt.bsky.socialYou’ve made me a martyr
like Joan of Arc
a victim to men’s cruel whims
Your raging madness spreads mercilessly over my body
a toxic wildfire that chars and ruins everything in its path- "Burning Eternal"
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@cathycobalt.bsky.socialOut of the corner of my eye
I can see her smirking at me
black eyes glittering
Lady Death is nothing if not patient- "Lady Death"
@cathycobalt.bsky.socialEventually, when the sun and my siblings alike awoke
my mother’s love had to face the reality
that it was illogical and fruitless to sacrifice the many for the nonexistent one- "Unhatched"
@cathycobalt.bsky.socialNow, teeth and warm wet mouth
Tongue lapping at half-frozen yolk
Red tail twisting in half-awake pleasure
Am I awake?
Or is this simply
the flight of another dream?- "Unhatched"
@cathycobalt.bsky.socialThank you! I was going for an Alanis Morissette "Forgiveness" vibe. Hope I delivered.
@cathycobalt.bsky.social"I shed my petals for naked same-new flesh covered in sweat and glittery afterbirth. My wings shimmer in shades of cherry blossoms, sky, and pearl as I take flight with my sibling seedlings into the new unknown."
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@cathycobalt.bsky.socialPassion like yours is a miserable half-baked thing. When it finally burns out there will be nothing left of you or me but the scorched black bones of our remains. Two vestiges twined forever in a grotesque mass grave
where all monsters burn forever- "Burning Eternal"
#poetry
@cathycobalt.bsky.socialThey cast me out to Babylon to live with the atheist professors and transgender Buddhists whose wisdom seeps and filters into my veins like water through a teabag perfuming the essence of me until I am awash with the beauty of their visions- "The Witch Whore of Babylon"
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@cathycobalt.bsky.socialI can still see the eyes of my kin bound to me by cursed blood that will die when I do, but I never forget. Witches and whores are not welcome in the Holy Land- "The Witch Whore of Babylon"
@cathycobalt.bsky.social"I may be Mother of Evil, but you are Mother of Disobedience. History may forgive the evil of men
but will never forgive the defiance of women"- "Lilith to Eve"
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@cathycobalt.bsky.social“In the Name of
The Father,
The Son,
And the Holy Spirit.
Amen.”
In the Name of
The Fig Tree,
The Superstitious,
And the Haunted by The Holy Ghost.
Amen.
@cathycobalt.bsky.social"A mouthful of rustic bloody thorns and sickly-sweet rose blossoms released on my tongue, intoxicated on bread wafers, wine, and holiness at age nine.
Now I receive my blessing, smile, and return to my seat on bleachers as hard as the steps of the Vatican in Holy Rome." #poetry
@cathycobalt.bsky.socialThank you! I hope you're right and that it reaches its audience😊
@cathycobalt.bsky.socialCurrently available for pre-order wherever books are sold.
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@cathycobalt.bsky.socialMy queer poetry chapbook Post Humanist Religion is available for pre-order wherever books are sold! Release date is August 11! #writingcommunity amazon.com/Post-Humanis...
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