Betty O'Hearn's "Quick Walk" after Susan Greene

Poet Beverly Finney photographed as she reads Betty O'Hearn's poem in front of the inspiring Susan Greene collage. Art of Poetry Catawba Valley toured the exhibit at Caldwell Arts Council on June 9, 2018.

QUICK WALK 

by Betty O’Hearn

After Edge by Susan Greene

The sun was shining dusting the top of the

water with light and shadows.

I had to go up to take a walk on the terra cotta stone.

My walks are quick.  It is dangerous to go up but

I live on the edge. 

It is courting season and I am exhausted.

Holding yourself vertical all day makes you wish

you could be like other sea creatures and

swim horizontal. 

I should be grateful.  People like us, as we are

an oddity.  I know horses above don’t have as

much fun as we do.

Oops. Someone is walking down.  I better jump

back to where it is safe.  And…  off I go, back

to the sea. 

That was fun!

Thanks, Betty, for your contribution! She, along with Kelly DeMaegd and Mel Hager, coordinated Art of Poetry through Hickory Museum of Art.  Please consider contributing to AOPCV when we return to Hickory Museum of Art for a tour October 13, 2018. Full details can be found at this link: - https://artofpoetrycv.blogspot.com/2018/08/art-of-poetry-catawba-valley-announces.html

We hope to see you and/or your poetry October 13!

Art of Poetry Catawba Valley

Melissa Hager and Patricia Deaton