Arsenic Lobster
poetry journal |
Issue Twenty Summer 2009 |
the magician’s niece -- a cento Elizabeth Weber the trick is her black-feathered straps. birds gather beneath the curtain when she steps. go, croaks a raven. a shiver, a hiss like an open bottle. somewhere in the pitch is a song. the whip’s encounter loosens the back to plumage. feathers in the clawfoot tub. a shiver, a hiss, darkness is an apiary. there are only two ways between naked and nothing. a bridge that looks like a tongue, hand prints of a lost grip, i’m confessing my love for performance. Thanks to the following authors: Kim Young, Simone Muench, Kristy Bowen, Kristy Odelius, Michaela Gabriel, Mackenzie Carignan, and Melissa Severin. |
About Elizabeth Weber |