ANNOUNCING HALLUCINATING CALIFORNIA

a new split chap from windowpane press by richard lopez and jonathan hayes is now published and ready for sale, trade, swap, gifts, you name it. these are poems about the california area codes 916 and 415. dig these texts:

will take you will not take you

invisible spirit
everywhere
said angel g.
humped over
his field of
the blessed
matrix claims
ufology can
travel without
leaving his body
hola he cries
to everyone
california is
not here
tapping the
sidewalk
tapping his
head sound
like hardwood

richard lopez

* * *

fireworks

as i light up the cigarette,

after using it as a stick
to push

the tenderloin fried chicken
to the back of the cardboard container

toward its bones
to make room

for this cigarette’s ashes –

crack, crizzle, crawl
goes the chicken’s grease

soaked into the cigarette’s paper,

when the cherry kisses it.

jonathan hayes


contact me at len200athotmaildotcom

or jonathan hayes at jsh619atearthlinkdotnet

for copies.

word to yr mutha