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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

Biography

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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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