Alan Catlin
Alan Catlin has published many books and chapbooks. His two most recent chapbooks are a pair of “evil twins”: Hollyweird from Night Ballet Press and Blue Velvet winner of the 2017 Slipstream Chapbook Award. He is the poetry editor of Misfitmagazine.net
I played all the small theaters
After you’ve played
a miniature
golf course
there’s no place
to go but up
Even bowling alley
back room banquet
spaces
the sound of the pins
scattering
the click of the ball
returns
begin to sound
almost like
music
Like the dusty
stage of an HO
train display
meeting hall
or the theater for
all those plastic
people
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