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Author: Katherine West

Katherine West lives in Southwest New Mexico, near Silver City. She has written three collections of poetry: The Bone Train, Scimitar Dreams, and Riddle, as well as one novel, Lion Tamer. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Writing in a Woman's Voice, Lalitamba, Bombay Gin, New Verse News, Tanka Journal, Splash!, Eucalypt, Writers Resist, Feminine Collective and Southwest Word Fiesta. New Verse News nominated her poem And Then the Sky for a Pushcart Prize in 2019. In addition she has had poetry appear as part of art exhibitions at the Light Art Space gallery in Silver City, New Mexico, the Windsor Museum in Windsor, Colorado, and the Tombaugh Gallery in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She is also an artist.

WHERE SHE HAS FALLEN

May 1, 2025May 1, 2025 Katherine West

Supine, she sprawls where she has fallen, not one bird calls where she has fallen. Dead grass covers her form like a shroud, an endless pall where she has fallen. The lightning-struck tree, stiff with black grief, still standing tall where she has fallen. Where is the play of green Read more

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LIKE WOMEN WAVING GOOD-BYE

March 30, 2025March 30, 2025 Katherine West

Trees in the wilderness, like women waving good-bye. Wind in folds of her dress, like women waving good-bye. Fire in a pile of leaves that lift one by one, like hands that cannot rest, like women waving good-bye. Pregnant sisters bleed like the leaves of fall lie against hospital walls Read more

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MOTHERS

February 26, 2025February 26, 2025 Katherine West

In Malta, at the stone temples of new mothers, they knocked the heads off ancient statues—mute mothers. My mother denied her mother, sold her daughter to a land without memory of true mothers. After she died, he wore her silk nightgown to bed, as if he could magic a double, Read more

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THE WHITE GOD RISES

January 27, 2025January 27, 2025 Katherine West

January 20, 2025 Behind dark mountains at dusk, the white god rises.Long after the loss of trust, the white god rises. During eclipse, they bang pans to bring the moon back.She laughs, what’s wrong with the cusp? The white god rises. Who sculpts the shape of woman, the shape of Read more

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A STORM OF WOMEN

December 13, 2024December 13, 2024 Katherine West

All night, she thought she heard storms, or were they just dreams? She thought she heard a voice speaking in dusty dreams. She was so sick that she could never go outside. So she planted a small garden of trusting dreams. They shared the same chain. One barked; the other Read more

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IN NUMBERS GREAT

November 4, 2024November 4, 2024 Katherine West

Last night I had a dream I flew A flying fish, I leapt from fountains, from sacred pools long and blue. I Dreamt I hung, then plunged as from a mountain. From somewhere there was singing. From somewhere there were birds. From somewhere there was ringing. From somewhere a flight Read more

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A MARRIAGE OF OPPOSITES

September 30, 2024September 30, 2024 Katherine West

At breakfast, you tell me the world cannot be held with words—it must be shaped like a cave painting that accepts its life as a slice of the whole.  Words are ambitious, you say, they imagine they can contain whatever I yearn to contain.  Words are a beautiful bit in Read more

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THE FALL

September 10, 2024September 10, 2024 Katherine West

There is a myth about the sun happy in her everywhere her gifts of growth and warmth of beauty-making light But someone insults her (some lover of the dark) so she flees to the cave from whence she came turns her face to the chill, unliving wall He follows, of Read more

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