Sara Matson
<fresh tattoo>
smoking blood
cigarettes
like fissures in the ice
somewhere
the bad haircut (of cropped sorrow)
a forlorn,
heaving creature w/
lacefront eyebrows
chockfull of matted teeth
crucial violin melody
violating foreseeable flesh
culture spilled
on magnified plush lip
overdrawn (an alien cruiser)
crashing into the most
elegant trophies
hair // pressure // grief
swanforced photography
splayed out of our patent leather
curls
damp wrapped around jeweled wrists
since dyed, a vulnerable pink
thumbhole spitball
post punk sweetbabe
overserved w/
sticky eyelids
memories r split
1970s iconography a childhood that isn’t mine
cherry glossed album //
pulsing neon firestorm //
wood paneling, everywhere //
backlit 80s barbiturate slumber party snacking
on sushi plucked from a trembling
lavender scented hip
quiver (if only ceremoniously)
perfunctory squares educate:
suffering is fundamentally
translucent
worn like cling wrap over
a fresh tattoo
cigarettes
like fissures in the ice
somewhere
the bad haircut (of cropped sorrow)
a forlorn,
heaving creature w/
lacefront eyebrows
chockfull of matted teeth
crucial violin melody
violating foreseeable flesh
culture spilled
on magnified plush lip
overdrawn (an alien cruiser)
crashing into the most
elegant trophies
hair // pressure // grief
swanforced photography
splayed out of our patent leather
curls
damp wrapped around jeweled wrists
since dyed, a vulnerable pink
thumbhole spitball
post punk sweetbabe
overserved w/
sticky eyelids
memories r split
1970s iconography a childhood that isn’t mine
cherry glossed album //
pulsing neon firestorm //
wood paneling, everywhere //
backlit 80s barbiturate slumber party snacking
on sushi plucked from a trembling
lavender scented hip
quiver (if only ceremoniously)
perfunctory squares educate:
suffering is fundamentally
translucent
worn like cling wrap over
a fresh tattoo
Biography
Sara Matson’s poetry can be found in The Journal Petra, DATABLEED, Ghost City Review, Theta Wave, Pulp Poets Press, Dream Pop Press, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, electric grandma is available from Another New Calligraphy and her chaplet, Forgotten: Women in Science is available from Damaged Goods Press. Sara lives in Chicago with her rad husband + cats, and Tweets as @skeletorwrites. More of Sara Matson’s poems can be found at https://neutralspaces.co/saramatson/
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