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.
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Claudia Dixon
1/16/2018 01:09:08 pm
Love Barbara Carton's poem on Rauschenberg's quilt, especially the last stanza. I can't help wondering what he had in mind when he painted it.
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