Cati Porter’s Small Mammals
What do you do when your child dies? What do you do when your teenager is the victim of violent bullies? What do you do when your teenager take drugs or robs your liquor cabinet? What do you do when your teenager overdoses and ends up in hospital? What do you do when your teenager goes on a joyride with your car and gets in an accident? What do you do when your teenager has a live-in lover? What do you do when your teenager becomes a young adult, and you stand in the street as he/she drives away to live independently? How do you look mortality in the face? These and many other predicaments happen to Cati Porter’s narrator in Small Mammals. Read Porter’s impactive, lyrical poetry to discover how her narrator handles some of life’s most trying tribulations. – Stephen Page, author of “A Ranch Bordering the Salty River.”
Cover art, “Self-Portrait as Mother/Child” by Julie Heffernan © 2023.
Check out Cati Porter’s website: https://www.catiporter.com
Stephen Page 
An interesting basis for poetry. I’ve experienced a lot of these events!
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Yes, empathic subject matter.
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