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Home Made Tattoos
I sacrificed my husband/for a novel/and an art/exhibit.
The novel/was composed/of two hundred pages/of footnotes/and fifty/
Pages/of transitions/left to the reader/with instructions/to place
The “real” story/within the time line./An individual/interpretation. /
I read my completed novel/and my response/to my own life/was thirty
Homemade tattoos/ photographed & scanned, applied not to skin/but to
Transparency/which left the ink/wet/and then I applied/a layer/
Of acrylic paint (the revelations/of the objects’ change/over time). /And I took/
One last look/at the tattoos/of the old typewriter/the safety pin/
The chessboard/a diamond ring/an angel face/a frozen purple lake/
Before sealing/the lamination atop/and then each tattoo’s lines/
Were blurred/and distorted/with air bubbles/under the surface./
The tattoos/are not/
Unrecognizable.
Michelle Rose studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio. She currently lives in Cincinnati, where she is
working on her first fiction novel. She is also an artist and photographer
and occasionally works as a figure model for local art schools. Other poems
of hers are scheduled to appear in The Incliner.
Michelle Rose
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