Solitude: Wide Awake Dreaming Four Times - 4 Poems by Alan Catlin

 

Solitude: Wide Awake Dreaming Four Times 

 

1-

 

Glenn Gould’s Solitude Trilogy: 

 

Midnight sun nights 

well below zero, 

low gray clouds and 

a prevailing wind brings 

snow and fresh ice; 

disembodied voices 

in the night

 

 

2-

 

Wide Awake Dreaming: 

 

Vincent’s Absinthe drinkers, 

the grim pallor of their 

lusterless, textured skin; 

the green fairy is upon them

 

 

3-

 

Sylvia’s Winter Trees: 

 

The bent contours of 

her dreams; shadows 

cast inside

 

 

4-

 

Last Get Down Boogie Blues: 

 

Double  bass man and 

a blind pianist getting  

down with a tenor sax, 

smoke rings the spot lit 

stage; even the cocktail 

waitress stops to listen

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).