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Karmic by Matthew Burnside

December 13, 2022

Reading Time: 1 Minutes

Prose Poetry

Poetry / The Weekly

Burnside, Matthew
Matthew Burnside is the author of Wiki of Infinite Sorrows and Postludes (both from KERNPUNKT) as well as forthcoming collections Centrifugal: Unstories from Whiskey Tit and Skull Kingdoms: An Imaginary Omnibus from Unsolicited Press. He lives in Virginia.

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