The Minister's Wife, Mary Kay and Jesus

she swore
the oath, her
corset eyelets
riveted, the secret
lying in the clover in the
churchyard, black woman
with full lips of cherry red dropped
her Mary Kay campaign book marking
a bible verse inside her bible, lipstick
order inside the pulpit, her cosmetic
ministry catering to womanly passion,

address written
on the Mary Kay book
lost in the churchyard
clover, after her sermon
she searched frantically
for the beauty of lust, the
white woman who roused
her shapely black thighs that
ran with her heavenly Mary Kay
calling,

white woman's
intuition drove to
the church, looked
down at the Mary Kay book
in the clover in the churchyard,
picked it up and sniffed it, scent
lifted the hood, white woman right
then and right there seduced interracial
affair the minister's wife, pulpit blush lipstick
order, black lips red kissing white lips pink, Mary
Kay Ash and Jesus joined in prayer of cosmetic scripture,

clover in the
churchyard and
dandelion wine, chariot
and pink cadillac transporting
ancient beauty secrets; ministry
is beautiful, it's all in the make-up
of the pulpit.

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist