Apology for Bad Dreams: St Croix 1953

by Alan Catlin

Apology for Bad Dreams: St Croix 1953
after Robinson Jeffers

Memory or dream ?

The white horse
at the base
of a ravine

securely tethered
to a tree

struggling
to set himself
free

panicking

as tropical storm
winds bend trees
at the top
of the plateau
toward the earth

snap the trunks

pull out the roots

impelling the broken
full-grown palms

down

all the way
down