Birds, Breaks
By jem
Sat, 05 Oct 2013
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The branches tattooed on your arms
are a springboard from which you can launch:
Propelled somehow from your own skin -
Freed from cartilage to conquer the air.
A Kingfisher neck on marrowless bones
Daring the tide of the sweet Thames and
Kicking out against the brown sprawl beyond.
Your majesty a protest against
Gracelessness, gravity, containment.
Your beautiful dance; broken-up, hysterical dance,
Just fragments, stored up and shored against your ruin.
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The way brought tatoos to
The way you used the tattoo was really interesting, made for a visual picture of that descent.
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