Brief Meditations Seven Times - A Poem in Seven Parts by Alan Catlin

 

Brief Meditations Seven Times

 

 

1- 

Moon in water. 

scooping out a cup, 

moon still there

 

 

2- 

Open window frames 

the sky, flocks of birds 

in it

 

 

3- 

Wind-blown litter. 

the sound of plastic 

cups in the street, 

then the rain

 

 

4- 

Record heat this Summer; 

even the flagpoles 

wilting

 

 

5- 

Caught in motion detecting 

lights, the black cat 

waits

 

 

6- 

Morning after the storms 

cloudless sky Monet blue

 

 

7- 

Reflection in still 

lake water; 

who is this man?

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).