Jonathan Hayes
Jonathan Hayes is currently an unemployed poet in Oakland, California. He is also responsible for the long-running Bay Area literary journal Over the Transom. His most recent publication is the chapbook Purposeful Accident released by Holy&intoxicated Publications, England, 2022. Jonathan recommends Urban Alchemy.
Threw up our tags from Kenmore Square to Harvard Square
Catching air off red bricks in “the Pit” till cops gave chase
Years later
The beer has not changed nor the attitude
UPS brown truck parked one wheel up on the sidewalk blinking its back
yellow lights where a movie theater used to be on the south side of
Market Street near Sixth Street
Now I’m walking the levee
Amongst meth head zombies
When a raccoon reminds me
To keep my hand on my knife.
