No fence at most plantations, I still watch
what I sing, but I sing.
I think God must be a field full of caws.
I know God can’t have a man’s eyes
against a small body. There are no fences
because to run is to die, they must fly from here.
I think if God is a white man he sits low in his chair
and won’t but only sometimes
make eye contact with the angels.
Miss Mary Mack Considers God
Tyree Daye
Tyree Daye, author of River Hymns, is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and most recently was awarded a 2019 Whiting Writers Award.