trains are emissaries
of darkness sealed
against seeing
almost archaic as
troop carriers bearers
of the condemned
the dead inside all
lights extinguished
a smell of fear men
in closed tight cages
as palpable as smoke
leaking in from some
where nearby
Alan Catlin has published over forty-five chapbooks of prose and poetry and been nominated for thirteen Pushcart Prizes. He was the winner of Main Street Rag's International Chapbook Contest in 2000 for his collection, Ghost Road. His latest volume of poetry, Drunk and Disorderly: A Selected Poems, will be released by Pavement Saw Press in 2003.
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