12.08.2010

Justin Hyde:
Two Poems


progression of a body through knives

just so you know
i've met someone
i really like him
things are getting
serious

we agreed
so i'm letting you know
i'll be introducing him
to ivan
soon,
says your
ex wife
into the phone.

you knew
this day
was coming

thought you
might handle it
with aplomb
and sphinx
wisdom

hell
you've had
three relationships
and a cascade of
one night stands
in the year and a half
you've been divorced.

but you
hang up
the phone

a final door
closed

something substantial
draining
from your
face. 




lately

dangle armed

concave of eye

the hands of clocks
keeping time
to unknown songs:

read some books
to trick the mind
from inertia:

lift some weights
to trick the body
from atrophy:

dangle armed

concave of eye

sitting around bars

sipping diet coke

as the heart
withers away
like an
unplucked grape.




Justin Hyde lives in Iowa.

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