The Tattoo

--- Making a Permanent Impression Since 1994 ---

An excerpt from "Reinventing Fire," a poem taken
from 'Nine Years Between Two Poems' ---
  
  Saudi Arabia
  
  I'd have cut myself down, burned myself
  limb by limb for a little heat.
  And did. Vitality thaws against fox,
  kindles in dolphin song, flares with white
     light
  of stars. Heart's blood leaps up 
  through rowan tree,
        flame crowning ash.