Fianna (Fiona Russell Dodwell): VOTE

A UK postal poll card in which only scattered words remain visible. Most of the card's text is covered in handdrawn x's. The words that remain visible read as an erasure poem as follows:

Poll
Election
vote
vote
vote
vote
vote
vote

Help

help
help
help
help

please

Please
issue a replacement
form of
voting

It is an offence to
electors

Fianna (Fiona Russell Dodwell)

Fianna (Fiona Russell Dodwell) is from Fife and lives in the Fens and Norfolk coast. Her first poems were published in IS&T. She has since had about 70 published, including in Lighthouse Literary JournalYork MixOfi Press Magazine (Mexico)The Caterpillar, Under the Basho, The Curly Mind, VOLT (USA) and OSMOSIS.

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