Poetry: sneakers hip-hop after sweatpants by Jonathan Hayes

sneakers hip-hop after sweatpants

her security in the realm of blossom

strength of tragedy held in stained-glass eyes

 

@ the drop of a yellow leaf upon the sidewalk

a mother’s paleolithic stare from an animal’s stance

 

triangles <<< of >>> anxiety

 

sexy prognathism (prom-is-kyoo-i-tee) of leather chin

 

how flesh tells stories &soap

only washes the cover of the body’s novel

 

vulgar style of poor clothes

&richness of creature streetwalker

 

GALAXY OF HANDS

 

(what the water gave you)

 

his East-Coast-ballcap self traversing traffic lights

&cautious of desire: the ancient wet blackness of a cunt

 

INSIDE

 

flower burials; lifeless hummingbirds; &Mexican stars

 

somewhere…

 

skull-to-skull in a rock shelter

composting organics to the rhythm of decay

 

abandoning the sun’s face

while taking our sweatpants off

&breathing together in the moon’s distance

 

w/ sneakers on concrete

Jonathan Hayes lives by the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz, California with his wife and their cat. He is the editor / publisher of the long-running literary journal, Over the Transom. His chapbook, Purposeful Accident, was released by Holy&intoxicated Publications, England, 2022.