Winter Dreams - A Poem in Six Parts by Alan Catlin

 

Winter Dreams

  

 

1- 

Heavy Spring snow on lilac branches.   

Two gone so far. 

 

2- 

 

Mutability:   

Almost hot Winter day.  

Snow melt rivers.   

A week later:  

two more feet of snow. 

 

3- 

Late night sound of freight trains  

moving through town. 

Where they are sounds  

change directions.  

Depending upon the wind.   

 

4- 

Homage to Li Po:   

Drinking wine.   

The way you loved me, 

a red stain on white carpet. 

 

5- 

 

Mandelstam:  Reading by candle light.   

Creased pages. Poems in two languages. 

The blurred edges of his life, fading. 

 

6- 

 

Snow laden trees. Strong image poems;  

Plath’s last dreams.

Alan Catlin has published dozens of chapbooks and full-length books. He latest published works include How Will the Heart Endure (about life and work of Diane Arbus( from Kelsay Books and listening to the Moonlight Sonata from Impspired (UK).