bottom

 

feeder, masked, butter, black.
a solitary hunter

 

in limited territory.
the steely-eyed elevator door cries

 

and the steel-nerved radiator leaks radiator
fluid. and sometimes piss,

 

as a barred hamlet would,
or a greater soapfish.

 

 

 

 

 

 hunk

 

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STELLA WONG is the author of Stem, forthcoming from Princeton University Press, Spooks, winner of the Saturnalia Books Editors Prize, and American Zero, selected for the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize by Danez Smith. A graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Wong’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Colorado Review, Lana Turner, Bennington Review, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, and more.

 

The art that appears alongside this piece is by AMY RENEE WEBB.