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issue7_daniels Elision - Barbara Daniels
 
Words lose their syllables.
Gator rises ferociously out of
alligator. Never sinks to ne’er.
 
A little splash of acid
eats out the centers of words--
temperture, famly.
 
Mortification, scaffolding,
talisman weigh
heavily on the tongue,
 
each dropped syllable
an unplayed note,
a favorite tango shorted.
 
A dancer stops, bends
his partner, his rider,
backward toward the floor.
 
In the stoppage, sudden
blank landscape. In the shot
holes, white light.

 
 

Barbara Daniels’ books include Rose Fever, Black Sails, and Quinn & Marie. She received an Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 2014.
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