The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:00pm
The Sun Is Setting
to The New South West
sending rays through
layered clouds
— rays that used to fall
on the heads of saints —
now into The Ocean
illuminating the bank in orange-gold
along My Piece of Horizon
The Hawk Family Room 6:25pm
Hey, I Black Jesus
I Five year Ol’
My Girl Fren Beat Me Up
today I ax Her
do She have titties
Bitch say Yes
but She My Age
She din show Me none
Barrington Passage 1:40pm
“Mamma–
I’m tellin’ on Black Jesus —
He make Me sick
in Ma Stomack —
We wuz frenz —
now We ain’t —
I don’ like Black Jesus
no mo’
I don’ like Him”
The Hawk West Desk Window 10:00am
The Seed of Black Jesus
is nestled inside
the satin folds of My White Womb
I am in Partnership
We give no credence
to satan
Joanna Gilman Hyde 