CABBAGE NIGHT

Neighbors stalk the strict corn maze: men
in topiary disguise, the women innocent
as bees harvesting last night’s moon dust
into their thigh baskets. Your own

escort however is me. I sideswipe & prod
whoever is you before me deep into the gun
muzzle puzzle where deviant acts instruct
perfect strangers to solve
our bellowing labyrinth for its Minotaur.