in a coffin
ignorant
of africa
sunfall's
illuminating
violin music
kids bring
tortillas of light
pigs and frogs
drink milk
Skydiving and Ruscha
15,000 feet
gunpowder on paper
the flat space of words
explode for $119 a jump
you can predict when the tides come in
but what they bring and take is of there own
santa creature
by the boardwalk
wharf kids stumble
the middle name, "seth," papa red fated
and all its Homeboy [1991 Random House]
nepotistic tenderloin connections
of fried chicken and laughs
and what janis joplin
left behind
between the bed and
wall/
Godiva and Tiffany
a mole under the eye
is a sign of bad luck
he gave her everything
except the truth
a relationship sustained
by new restaurants
"look at the shops and markets
- equal and fair competition -
there is no monopoly in Chinatown"
white flowers = death
Mother's Day
the longevity
of bamboo
the format gives it away
nothing is forever
i.e.
forever is nothing
e.g.
Jellyfish and Vinegar
lightning
breaks the bone
Puck
is on the throne
duck egg / skin anchor
ball and alcoholic chain
(submissive cucumber)
the weight of defeat
[on the perimeter of Times Square squared]
she took a Polaroid picture
and placed it on her pillowcase
next to her head in bed, whispering
a mantra
of multiplication tables
product:
prayers answered
Clowning
the dope is purple
and the syringe is pink
my head turns into
multi-colored cotton candy
when i slam the circus
jonathan hayes bio:
After several wet salmon seasons in Alaska while working
in a cannery, and hoboing along the Columbia River of Washington,
until joining fruit tramps and migrant workers in the red
delicious apple orchard, and then driving a John Deere tractor
before sunrise on slippery-dewed grass of agrarian reform,
the factotum ceased. Now a barnacle-covered hermit crab
scurrying from class to sea lettuce in the tide pool of
San Francisco State University, by the not-always peaceful
Pacific littoral.
