Jonathan Hayes

little finger chipping away at red nail polish
blotches of ten cherry wounds remain

blue jeans swaying a tributary
slapped by the turnstile

statuary hands move quiet
collecting stares at the trolley stop

hair: silent & dramatic

we paint you
until you have left our vision

Jonathan Hayes is the author of Echoes from the Sarcophagus (3300 Press, 1997), St. Paul Hotel (Ex Nihilo Press, 2000), and self invented (split chapbook with Mark Sonnenfeld, Marymark Press, 2003). Recently published by Big Bridge, Realpoetik, and Sidereality; he edits the literary / art magazine Over the Transom.