Arsenic Lobster poetry journal
Issue Twenty
Summer 2009
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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

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