
Reading Cathy Porter's new chapbook, The Dash Between Us, brings to mind two antecedents in particular: e.e.cummings "littlehowtown" and Paul Simon's, "Our Little Town." Interpersonal relationships are defined by the spaces between people, dead end jobs lead to graveyard shifts...

Reading Cathy Porter's new chapbook, The Dash Between Us, brings to mind two antecedents in particular: e.e.cummings "littlehowtown" and Paul Simon's, "Our Little Town." Interpersonal relationships are defined by the spaces between people, dead end jobs lead to graveyard shifts...