“The Footsteps,” a poem by Jonathan Hayes

The Footsteps

for Glenn Ingersoll

Are in the pome

Side by side with each word

Keeping cadence or wandering

Depending on the next …

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I didn’t know Jonathan Hayes had dedicated a poem to me. So when I came upon it in his book, A Full Moon in Santa Cruz, I was surprised. But what really strikes me — is that it kinda sounds like me. Not just that it’s roughly in the poem poem genre, a poem talking about itself, often with a sense of self-awareness (I’ve done a whole series of those), but that it has that “wandering” in it, that readiness to enjoy uncertainty that I think of as one of things I need in poetry. Where are we going next? Let’s find out together! 

Jonathan Hayes is also the editor of the literary magazine, Over the Transom, and the anthology, —ah: American haiku anthology. 

source: A Full Moon in Santa Cruz

poems by Jonathan Hayes

2018. Mel C. Thompson Publishing, Lafayette CA