Miscellaneous
I like the smell of vinegar, gasoline, clove cigarettes, gunpowder,
Listerine, shoe polish, my own farts and armpit sweat, citrus,
and let’s not forget the pool’s chlorine.
Treading water in the deep end — that’s all I know how to do.
Everything else,
sinks.
Jonathan Hayes is the editor / publisher of the long-running American literary journal Over the Transom. His writing has appeared in print and online in various magazines. Hayes’ last chapbook was Purposeful Accident, Holy&Intoxicated Publications, England, 2022, and his most recent book is Ghetto Sunshine & Other Poems 1997-2023, Mel C. Thompson Publishing, California, 2024. He lives in Oakland, California.
