Verse Wisconsin 105| Danielle Blasko

Silhouette

Black-brown
winged masochist
trapped between window and
screen by sadists who won’t free her.
Mortal
demons watch her break apart, one
limb at a time, flapping
white-bordered wings
to shreds.

—Danielle Blasko, Surfside Beach, SC

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Danielle Blasko is a Detroit native who has been enjoying life on an east coast beach for the past three years. She edits The Feline Muse Literary Blogzine and her poetry has most recently appeared in The Legendary, Escarp, Short, Fast, and Deadly, Gutter Eloquence Magazine and The Moose & Pussy Magazine. Her reviews have been published in The Centrifugal Eye and Gutter Eloquence Magazine. Her only links to Wisconsin are her roots in the Midwest and her one dearly beloved poet friend who lives in Madison.

One thing I love about the Cinquain form is it's variability. "Silhouette" is a Butterfly Cinquain, a variation on the traditional Crapsey Cinquain. This is another poem that has been saved by form. The original, a free-verse poem seemed doomed to the trash can fate until I worked it into its current shape.