black honey
I see you tripping down the hill
stick out your tongue new skate shy
old-eyed roan jenny on a sticky lead
frog blood rubber soles and sugar sugar sugar
wet pepsi slugging in the shuffle bar
snot-roses bats out tonight
I let you inside my house
flies dance your head
swaying and you’re rubbing my earlobes with strange palms
say
rat’s nest rat’s nest you pretty you make me laugh
touch my walls
I show you Mary’s breasts
strange desk bisections of soft marble
souping themselves
I show you
how I cut them off her
I show you
I’m just another cow from hell
Hey! that’s my boy in jeans
by river by the
lake the water
the fishes the
special gas station
not that I care
slushee pilot talk
my places amped up
Hey blondie I’m sorry I touched
all the blue pills in your bathroom
planted them in your begonias gave them wings
sucked battery acid from your dead walkman
slop hand-hold maim
my arm wooden
knife your name my name yours
I place the dollar bill on the counter
and you look at me
Maya Stahler
Maya Stahler is a poet from Oregon currently living in Iowa City where she is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work most recently appeared in Beaver Magazine.