Pianosexual
by Stella Cheersmith
‘Pianist’ sounds like ‘penis’
but I never saw his -
just thought about him fingering
keys, his back to me,
bent over the black and white.
Maybe if he’d fucked me on the piano
stool he might’ve stopped talking about
Mahler. ‘Debussy’ looks like ‘pussy’
but doesn’t sound like it.
Stella Cheersmith (she/her) is a writer and creative from Ōtautahi Christchurch. She completed her Master of Writing with Distinction at the University of Canterbury in 2024 and has pined for the world of Academia ever since. She has work forthcoming in Folly Journal and is slowly writing a series of historical crime stories.