the inside
of arthur's left thigh
is a collage of
yellow
orange
and black.
ever time
i start thinkin on
one of them
little angels
in pigtails,
he tells me
holding up an
ivory shoe-horn
on the end of
a bamboo stick.
it rings
up and down
the prison halls
several times
a night.
Justin Hyde lives in Iowa where he works with criminals. He has a web-page here: http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/justinhyde.
of arthur's left thigh
is a collage of
yellow
orange
and black.
ever time
i start thinkin on
one of them
little angels
in pigtails,
he tells me
holding up an
ivory shoe-horn
on the end of
a bamboo stick.
it rings
up and down
the prison halls
several times
a night.
Justin Hyde lives in Iowa where he works with criminals. He has a web-page here: http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/justinhyde.
