Flooded River, February Thaw 1997
after Stephen Hannock The drowned world is reflected in the effluent tide, ice break and tree limbs mar this mirrored mask; here, even the dead are regaining their sight as they rise along the river banks to walk among again the shimmering trees like sleepwalkers in search of dreams 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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