VIII

blunt caws of raven
hack the morning open

for the sharper melodic procedure
of butcherbird

on the dripping
hanging carcase

black men prefer dreaming
while the white men’s dreams are a
coloured
a coloured film
over waking eyes

American suburbia

a slick of oil
pouring on the land
a seeping greasy froth
settling

unconscious.

what do the women do

people
the coloured
coloured film

on waking eyes

and dreaming