Mediterranean Nocturne: Warm Horizon at Dawn 1999, by Alan Catlin

Dawn After the Wreck, by J.M.W. Turner (UK). 1841.

Mediterranean Nocturne: Warm Horizon at Dawn 1999
                                                        after Stephen Hannock

"What you hear is not my voice"

sonically enhanced as it
travels the wide spread

palms of water, blue-
blackened in the distance

near dawn; signal fires
appear at the base of

water spouts, the tide
slackens, the air still

as withheld breath

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.