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  • Branded★ Living
  • Kate Schapira (bio)

★The reek of burned hair and singed flesh, the squeals, the loosened bowels, the fellowship of suffering, something, together, what makes us members is the smell, the share, our share of suffering, the corral, the state of it.

Freak is printing an assembly of body parts that all fit together so nicely. All nest, finger muscles sheathing pads that lock squeegee and bone, a stretched tympanic membrane. The final color like a long wet whistle spatters over two Freakish hands. Layers over layers of dirty music, inefficient music, to Freak as birdsong, true sound of what surrounds them. All motions produce beauty and protest, motions practice what motions preach, the gender of the future’s unsurprisingly hollow bones. The final layer will emulate the empty window but in the red of promise, not the red of demolition. What demolition leaves as its ghost, no chemical depression, approaches flight as music, as pinions. [End Page 43]

Kate Schapira

Kate Schapira is the author of three chapbooks, Phoenix Memory (horse less press), Case Fbdy. (Rope-A-Dope Press), and The Saint’s Notebook (CAB/NET Chapbook Series). She is proud of recent acceptances to/appearances in Aufgabe, Practice, Ecopoetics, Word for/Word, and Denver Quarterly. She lives, writes, teaches, and coordinates the Publicly Complex Reading Series in Providence, Rhode Island.

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