Alan Catlin

Alan Catlin has just published his fourth book of the plague year, a non-linear, prose series of free associations, fragments of poems, songs, movie snippets and word crimes as Memories with Alien Buddha Press.

Arbus Negatives

I think of all those contact sheets
in the dark room of her heart

all those souls on fire

The eyes
those facial expressions
the body languaging

revealing everything
repressed

everything previously trapped
inside

I think how
what the Native Americans said
about a photograph stealing your soul

is true

How it’s a silent killer

leaving nothing behind