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Sara Matson
effusive burn she was a canterbury slut + relished every moaning ruche of fabric as it hit the floor in successful conquest the dragging scratch of thick matchhead to brick indecent ignition tugging checkboard silk over pinheads snagging to an immersive boil lit by so many sparklers clenched w/ non-violence leather dripping down cracked scapula swirling into mesh weighted at the knees, clutching and falling and falling
Sara Matson's chapbook, electric grandma is available from Another New Calligraphy + 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.