Blackwater Dreams
In a petrified forest
of dreams, sleeping
walkers step from moss
and mist covered stones
seeking shelter among
dead headed trees that
rise from white capped
blackwater, still as
smoke lingering in heavy
rain laden, brush stroked
sky, flightless birds attempt
to flee to.
Southern Gothic: A Romance after Sally Mann:
dreams of water
in full-length mirror
hung on closed,
clothes closet door;
inside is where they find
their childhood, each year
hung in places their
memories will not go.
In a petrified forest
of dreams, sleeping
walkers step from moss
and mist covered stones
seeking shelter among
dead headed trees that
rise from white capped
blackwater, still as
smoke lingering in heavy
rain laden, brush stroked
sky, flightless birds attempt
to flee to.
Southern Gothic: A Romance after Sally Mann:
Dreamers Awake
Dreamers awake in their
insubstantial gowns admire
Dreamers awake in their
insubstantial gowns admire
dreams of water
in full-length mirror
hung on closed,
clothes closet door;
inside is where they find
their childhood, each year
hung in places their
memories will not go.
Alan Catlin has published dozens of chapbooks and full length books. Among those are Portrait of the Artist Afraid of His Self-Portrait and Asylum Garden: after Van Gogh.
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