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Open Poetry #37

My freind's tattoos

smithdr
Junior Member

since 2006-02-25

Posts 26

0 posted 2006-02-25 03:30 PM

Jamie Tingley lived in a locust
and, for Christâ€™s sake, he loved

straight edged tattoos of sparrows,
speared in cobwebs,
spilling feathers
      on bloody elbows.

      On inner arms
a golden crown, a tilted skull,
clichÃ©s of roses with no temple
to hold them â€“
      or him.

No crossbones, just crucifixions.

      On cement runways
we stood, knowing full well
where he lived.

And so goes the locust leaving
inked-on memories
      on Jamie.
      On me.

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