Caribbean Dawn, Storm Clearing, by Alan Catlin

After the Storm, by Diego Rivera (Mexico). 1910.

Caribbean Dawn, Storm Clearing
                 after Stephen Hannock

Evasive light, blood orange
amid the filtering mist

above barely visible trees
as black clouds recede;

as the day clarifies, heat
intensifies, the landscape

sheds its mysterious skin

Alan Catlin

Editor's note: Alan Catlin's poem was inspired by the work of artist Stephen Hannock, whose stunning landscape paintings can be viewed at http://www.stephenhannock.info.

Alan Catlin has been publishing for parts of five decades in little, minuscule, not so little, literary and university publications from the Wisconsin Review to Tray Full of Lab Rats, to Wordsworth’s Socks and The Literary Review among many others. His chapbook, Blue Velvet, won the Slipstream Chapbook Contest in 2017. He is the poetry and review editor of Misfitmagazine.net, an online poetry journal.