Closer To Fine
It’s early spring, but winter
grips my legs. I see what makes
you break, but never close up shop.
But day and night never pass
without a fight --
and you will give them one,
as sure as the moon takes over
for the sun.
My drive home, faster than
the legal limit to get to the steps
you’ll walk up; the door you’ll push
open with a strength you never thought
possible --
to this house that made love shine.
Small steps blossom. You’ll be here
before you know it -- almost as if
you blinked your way home.
Fairport
on the ledge
we’ll meet
keep each other safe
from the winds
that slice our skin
the ice of winter
headed our way
who knows where
the time goes
as birds fly above --
like time, we never know
just where they go
but we tilt our heads
to the sky
as if answers
can be caught
falling off wings
Cathy Porter’s poetry has appeared in Plainsongs, Homestead Review, California Quarterly, Hubbub, Cottonwood, Comstock Review, and various other journals. The Dash Between Us is her latest chapbook from Finishing Line Press: A Life In The Day and Dust And Angels appeared in 2012 and 2014. She has two chapbooks published by Dancing Girl Press in Chicago: Exit Songs (2016), and 16 Days (2019), as well as The Skin Of Uncertainty (2020) from Maverick Duck Press. Cathy has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and serves as a special editor for the journal Fine Lines in Omaha, Nebraska.
It’s early spring, but winter
grips my legs. I see what makes
you break, but never close up shop.
But day and night never pass
without a fight --
and you will give them one,
as sure as the moon takes over
for the sun.
My drive home, faster than
the legal limit to get to the steps
you’ll walk up; the door you’ll push
open with a strength you never thought
possible --
to this house that made love shine.
Small steps blossom. You’ll be here
before you know it -- almost as if
you blinked your way home.
Fairport
on the ledge
we’ll meet
keep each other safe
from the winds
that slice our skin
the ice of winter
headed our way
who knows where
the time goes
as birds fly above --
like time, we never know
just where they go
but we tilt our heads
to the sky
as if answers
can be caught
falling off wings
Cathy Porter’s poetry has appeared in Plainsongs, Homestead Review, California Quarterly, Hubbub, Cottonwood, Comstock Review, and various other journals. The Dash Between Us is her latest chapbook from Finishing Line Press: A Life In The Day and Dust And Angels appeared in 2012 and 2014. She has two chapbooks published by Dancing Girl Press in Chicago: Exit Songs (2016), and 16 Days (2019), as well as The Skin Of Uncertainty (2020) from Maverick Duck Press. Cathy has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and serves as a special editor for the journal Fine Lines in Omaha, Nebraska.