Sarah Cavar

Making a madwoman

Take her
To the doctor 
When she is too small
To otherwise. 

Fashion a cavern in
Finite form, fix 
The size of her head
Within. 

Give her treadsocks
Give her an attic 
Turn her into an archive 
Of appointments.

Appoint yourself 
Chairman 
of the board 
On her back.

Hammer—

Pronounce her
Name, intelligent-like.
Give    her 
Like a gift





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Sarah Cavar is a PhD student, writer, and critically Mad transgender-about-town, and serves as Managing Editor at Stone of Madness Press. Author of two chapbooks, A HOLE WALKED IN (Sword & Kettle Press) and THE DREAM JOURNALS (giallo lit), they have also had work in Bitch Magazine, Electric Literature, Sinister Wisdom, Luna Luna Magazine, Superstition Review, and elsewhere. Cavar navel-gazes at cavar.club and tweets @cavarsarah.