Brionne Janae
Autumn in Bed-Stuy

and I’m as giddy as the ginkgo leaves 

forgetting yellow is meant to caution 

 

dare I close my eyes and take in 

the last of the suns praise

 

or the thrill of her tongue 

teasing a moan from my hips 

 

when I know SkyDaddy 

 

prefers my pleasure 

got in his name 

 

alone please 

don’t punish me

 

daddy like you 

I was made for worship 

 

and am I not most your son 

when I’m adored? 

 
Found In Volume 53, No. 05
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About the Author

 

Brionne Janae is the author of Because You Were Mine (2023), Blessed Are the Peacemakers (2022), which won the 2020 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, and After Jubilee (BOAAT Press, 2017).