A Bigger Stone
Our backs to the wind
A walk around the lake
Keeps the chill at bay
You pick up a small stone
Skip it across the water
Tell me to match that
We talk trivial matters
Weather, sports
The new neighbors
We don’t need to smother
The life out of fun
We’ve been hit hard
Respite on deck
Trivial is just what we need
And a bigger stone for me
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. Her chapbook Bodies Of One Breath is forthcoming in 2023 from Dancing Girl Press. Cathy has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes. She lives in Omaha, NE.
Our backs to the wind
A walk around the lake
Keeps the chill at bay
You pick up a small stone
Skip it across the water
Tell me to match that
We talk trivial matters
Weather, sports
The new neighbors
We don’t need to smother
The life out of fun
We’ve been hit hard
Respite on deck
Trivial is just what we need
And a bigger stone for me
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. Her chapbook Bodies Of One Breath is forthcoming in 2023 from Dancing Girl Press. Cathy has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes. She lives in Omaha, NE.
