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Corey's Traditional Creatures

I met Corey and Jessica last month outside of Madison Square Garden on a bright, sunny afternoon. Between the two of them, they have dozens of tattoos, so I had a lovely time chatting with them. They're originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and had been tattooed by a couple of artists who are friends of theirs working out of <a href="http://www.perkinsroadparlour.com/">Perkins Road Parlor</a>.<br /><br />Corey credited Brent McCarron and Chris Handford with this pair of cool, traditional-style tattoos: <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbl4KfP1UbGYtrqwRFZZBVA3RC5KWhkuwNPO8vQqO6d5IOvGVbkfoM8rcyXOMLDr3TcZ2rEDj05ibS1onDh07OdEWlvTwYrwJo3rf4Bz-Jh8lAIeI2rik2ogIBbHAKcHQyM3Z8j09gwuE/s1600/sabre+toothed+spider.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbl4KfP1UbGYtrqwRFZZBVA3RC5KWhkuwNPO8vQqO6d5IOvGVbkfoM8rcyXOMLDr3TcZ2rEDj05ibS1onDh07OdEWlvTwYrwJo3rf4Bz-Jh8lAIeI2rik2ogIBbHAKcHQyM3Z8j09gwuE/s400/sabre+toothed+spider.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Corey, who has 14 or 15 tattoos, just asked them to draw him something and they did.  This sabre-toothed tiger and his newest piece, the spider, about two weeks old in this photo, have a very traditional feel about them. I particularly love the yellows in the spider.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVWKcF8Jz8Tn-aXkN1uUwmsLRIh7GM1CELM-tVLjH07B-b4BBTxrNXmsAfMn6otSnuBjv7maXkAWFJkRKSfeY5FhDRZSMwReQrEfDx7U2mxIuaT-ilzfC4XNXyhMrmcJdwqLcVOmNuu3c/s1600/Spider.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVWKcF8Jz8Tn-aXkN1uUwmsLRIh7GM1CELM-tVLjH07B-b4BBTxrNXmsAfMn6otSnuBjv7maXkAWFJkRKSfeY5FhDRZSMwReQrEfDx7U2mxIuaT-ilzfC4XNXyhMrmcJdwqLcVOmNuu3c/s640/Spider.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks to Corey for sharing these tattoos with us! Check back tomorrow to see what Jessica had to offer!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">  </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div>

Corey's Traditional Creatures

I met Corey and Jessica last month outside of Madison Square Garden on a bright, sunny afternoon. Between the two of them, they have dozens ...

2:53 AM

Happy Mother's Day from Tattoosday

I wanted to celebrate Mother's Day with something new, but didn't have a lot in the backlog that was specifically motherly.<br /><br />Then I remembered <a href="http://www.meaghanfarrellmusic.com/">Meaghan Farrell</a>.<br /><br />I met Meaghan last month in Penn Station and approached her when I saw her tattoos. Turns out, Meaghan is a singer-songwriter with 15 tattoos, more of which will appear here tomorrow.<br /><br />One of the tattoos we talked about was this one on her inner right forearm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8CR99O4FE6rhyphenhyphenphmQX8K2udD6PwpWMLMj0n_grbe0vTBfWhsMLR8iYKIrWwnFLA51p7sLPKIW_mqqcb3eU7UUPLA-UExegwJQExgvlKGwz3yduEjin9Q_eHK7UpB4vL65g9RugpIhO_o/s1600/madge+alt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8CR99O4FE6rhyphenhyphenphmQX8K2udD6PwpWMLMj0n_grbe0vTBfWhsMLR8iYKIrWwnFLA51p7sLPKIW_mqqcb3eU7UUPLA-UExegwJQExgvlKGwz3yduEjin9Q_eHK7UpB4vL65g9RugpIhO_o/s400/madge+alt.jpg" width="350" /></a></div><br />Madge Gassaway was Meaghan's grandmother, who passed away when Meaghan was only nine. Madge, she told me, was a "strong, independent woman," who had a huge impact on her life.<br /><br />The quote, words of wisdom that have significant meaning for Meaghan, was worthy of inscribing them on her flesh.<br /><br />Of course, right after I left Meaghan I realized, I forgot to take a picture of the quote from her grandmother, and she kindly sent me one she took herself.<br /><br />In addition, Meaghan also has this stunning rose on her right shoulder:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJe1jkCL6FFVuWkzINU91uOgSAXJMc4I67Dug0ynJFWcEz8YaBRNtr-Kdge579lZffbtiZK0mvxX8Terr2S52m4cfYnEafGfQIEoo3putABhEfWC_ekmIszjnEN5E9teLHorBeJEDk8ns/s1600/Meaghan%2527s+rose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJe1jkCL6FFVuWkzINU91uOgSAXJMc4I67Dug0ynJFWcEz8YaBRNtr-Kdge579lZffbtiZK0mvxX8Terr2S52m4cfYnEafGfQIEoo3putABhEfWC_ekmIszjnEN5E9teLHorBeJEDk8ns/s400/Meaghan%2527s+rose.jpg" width="383" /></a></div><br />Meaghan explained that her grandmother had an amazing rose garden, and that this tattoo represents not only the memory of her.<br /><br />The artist responsible for these tattoos is <a href="http://www.myspace.com/beansink">Mr. Beans</a>, at <a href="http://www.fatcattattoos.com/">Fat Cat Tattoos NYC</a> in Astoria, Queens.<br /><br />Tune in tomorrow for two more of Meaghan's tattoos. I wanted to share these today in honor of mothers and grandmothers everywhere, who have such a great impact on all of our lives.<br /><br />Thanks to Meaghan for sharing her tattoos with us here at Tattoosday! Happy Mother's Day to All!<br /><br />  <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div>

Happy Mother's Day from Tattoosday

I wanted to celebrate Mother's Day with something new, but didn't have a lot in the backlog that was specifically motherly. Then I r...

8:48 AM

A Black Rose for Saturday

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1s8voiYsW0Np9rvBvet05TyYSrd419ZAXSjtaMUz_4Qyy8BrnIHZJifJVS62i_2dy0hEmxvXc322yQTFfG4F8URnmuECPbqPykvuGdtn_RMhumeTFrKa66axcaPHE59QwntOfXugo6us/s1600/Black+Rose+Saturday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1s8voiYsW0Np9rvBvet05TyYSrd419ZAXSjtaMUz_4Qyy8BrnIHZJifJVS62i_2dy0hEmxvXc322yQTFfG4F8URnmuECPbqPykvuGdtn_RMhumeTFrKa66axcaPHE59QwntOfXugo6us/s320/Black+Rose+Saturday.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><br />I ran into Sean at the A,C, E subway station at 34th Street last month, and took a picture of this black rose, what he called a personal symbol and his "call sign since junior high school."<br /><br />It's one of two tattoos he has, and was inked by Joe Staska at <a href="http://www.broadstreettattoo.com/">Broad Street Tattoo</a> in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.<br /><br />Thanks to Sean for sharing his black rose with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div>

A Black Rose for Saturday

I ran into Sean at the A,C, E subway station at 34th Street last month, and took a picture of this black rose, what he called a personal sym...

8:25 AM

The Tattooed Poets Project: Gerry LaFemina

Today's tattooed poet is Gerry LaFemina. Gerry put together a narrative about his ink, which makes my job easier, and gives us a detailed view of his tattoos. Let's see what he has to say:<br /><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_qZxUZys5OfMynkUaTwsQ8dmVG6WwEkj7r4sWYQ64NKnCQnTpJNxwuqfystuqJK4I2g23ykRLGrQ-xfj2sHYD-Qov_S5NVQc8bWHU8CSxhsF-7BKp6aDZ0lDEOEN1uCqg6LYVaqNAkT8/s1600/tattoo+one+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_qZxUZys5OfMynkUaTwsQ8dmVG6WwEkj7r4sWYQ64NKnCQnTpJNxwuqfystuqJK4I2g23ykRLGrQ-xfj2sHYD-Qov_S5NVQc8bWHU8CSxhsF-7BKp6aDZ0lDEOEN1uCqg6LYVaqNAkT8/s320/tattoo+one+cropped.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo by <a href="http://joygainesfriedler.com/default.aspx">Joy Gaines-Friedler</a></td></tr></tbody></table>"My first tattoo–I was 19, I was a punk rock kid, and I had been thinking about getting a tattoo for some time.  I had had a dream in which I had a tattoo of a skull and crossbones design in which the skull had peace symbols for eyes.  When I was shaving the next morning, I was surprised I didn’t have the tattoo.  So I called up my friend Melody, whose uncle was Tattoo Ray–one of the best tattooists on Staten Island.  She made the appointment and came with me to her uncle’s house.</div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">            In New York at the time (the mid 1980's), tattooing was still illegal: most tattoo artists worked out of their homes and their clientele was through word of mouth.  Ray was pretty famous–and I have met a number of people over the years on Staten island who had work done by Ray. He was funny, sarcastic, and quick-tongued.  I remember asking him about his needles (this was in the midst of the AIDS epidemic) after all and he asked me right back “How clean is your blood?”</div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">             I liked him immediately.  He did the work.  His niece and I talked.  I just remember being surprised how much the tattoo gun sounded like a dentist drill.  The little whine, the humming buzz.</div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">            My second tattoo: I got my senior year in college.  We found somebody in Westchester who did the work in his suburban neighborhood house.  I remember little of the experience.  The tattoo was not the one I wanted: what I had hoped to get – Tigger with a microphone and a mohawk jumping on his tail – I ended up not being able to afford.  Instead: I went with symmetry – and more pirate stuff: a rose with crossed swords above the left bicep.  In hindsight, this tattoo has held up better than Tigger probably would have....</div></blockquote><blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxchZRos1hHqtxsye_xqWeNJmdlywNQQC_ZTbkQG6mlYKL9Q6owjqU_ItwsPHCXoZghoxusddARMRwJ6LDsaLtQL9bdVbZHswtcXQyFg_4xUJdD_ejfJguh8WocxHJt3K9S0MG16llQn8/s1600/lafemina+and+tattoo+2+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxchZRos1hHqtxsye_xqWeNJmdlywNQQC_ZTbkQG6mlYKL9Q6owjqU_ItwsPHCXoZghoxusddARMRwJ6LDsaLtQL9bdVbZHswtcXQyFg_4xUJdD_ejfJguh8WocxHJt3K9S0MG16llQn8/s400/lafemina+and+tattoo+2+cropped.jpg" width="260" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo by <a href="http://joygainesfriedler.com/default.aspx">Joy Gaines-Friedler</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">            What lasts though are the tattoos I wanted to get but didn’t: After the rose I wanted to get Charlie Chaplin tattooed on me.  I asked several artist friends of mine to make me a design, and I got a few of them, but none of them “worked.”  And for several years I wanted the logo for my old band tattooed somewhere.  But neither happened.</div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>            So I went with two for a long time: but I often thought about getting new ink.  I wrote.  I taught.  I created a program for young writers in northern Michigan called the Controlled Burn Seminar for Young Writers.  I committed 13 years to that project, and after the tenth seminar, I thought I would get its logo – a lit cherry bomb – tattooed on my right forearm.  The logo was important to me: I believe poetry and all art should be a lit cherry bomb.  It should be a potential explosion.  But it should be fun, too.  I looked into it a few times, but I finally made the decision on a lark a few days after my birthday.  I was walking on Carson Street in Pittsburgh – tattoo parlor row.  I liked the name <a href="http://flyingmonkeytattooshop.com/">Flying Monkey Tattoo</a>.  So in I went.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh3R7r9850zmZpCGEL5rYrAr2yP3krJH7vFFlrAHohJEai3mby1k-ajp1fQxHM907sOJ1NFC3y6F-OjKFmaBs1aIiyU-E8iqobtap2pOinnVUMLm8ALFHf5dg8gLYYaNi6jmCVmQW2MiM/s1600/tattoo+three+2+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh3R7r9850zmZpCGEL5rYrAr2yP3krJH7vFFlrAHohJEai3mby1k-ajp1fQxHM907sOJ1NFC3y6F-OjKFmaBs1aIiyU-E8iqobtap2pOinnVUMLm8ALFHf5dg8gLYYaNi6jmCVmQW2MiM/s400/tattoo+three+2+cropped.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo by <a href="http://joygainesfriedler.com/default.aspx">Joy Gaines-Friedler</a></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div><br /><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">            The tattooist was a kid, He could have been one of my students–he was finishing up his apprenticeship and mine was one of his first tattoos.  The seminar after the ink ended up being the last one.  It seemed fitting that the creative writing kids got to see it before the seminar ended.</div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal">            And now I’m back to collecting designs: this time, though, I know who’s going to do the tattoos.  The next one will be a Buddha carrying a tattered pirate flag on my back.  These are the two strains of my life.  And I want the MG logo somewhere.  I’ve been driving an MGB for 15 years.  The tattoo is a commitment and the things I am committed too, the things that define me, that continue to define me I want inked on me.  I spend much of my life putting ink on paper.  I think it’s only fitting to have some ink on me, too."</div></blockquote>And now, for one of Gerry's poems:<br />   <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><b>Alphabet  City</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">            Avenues A through D, Lower </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">East Side</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, NYC</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">After the ambulances left but</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">before the sun finally rose above Avenue</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">C, I walked toward Tompkins  Square Park where the heroin </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">dependent rockers slept, addled on benches, while</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">ex-punks huddled in their leather jackets</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">for the morning was still damp. One of them called out,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gerry? </i>What was I to do when I saw her, recognized</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">her hesitant familiar eyes. How could I have</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">imagined things would turn out this way when I’d call out <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">her </i>name —</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">Joanna — those sleepless nights of high school &</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">kept a photo of her deep into college.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">Longing has such a sense of history.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">Morning was approaching in its colorful coat.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">Not once those months of kissing her, had I wakened beside her, but</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">oh — I’d wanted to. She was thinner & glanced away when I nodded;</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">pigeons surrounded her bench but would take off</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">quickly with the first sudden movement or when the next squad car</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">revealed itself in flashers & sirens.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">So what did I do? What could I do?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">The three five dollar bills folded in my pocket, what</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">use were they to me? I gave them to her, she who’d once been beautiful. How</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">victorious I’d felt that first time I kissed her.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">We didn’t look at each other, nor did we look askance. I thought of the little</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">xiphoid syringes she might load with that money. This was my sin.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">Two young black kids with dreadlocks walked by singing</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zion</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">! Take me back to </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zion</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">! </i>& I knew I’d never be saved.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">– Gerry LaFemina</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">from <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193469522X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=193469522X%22%3EVanishing%20Horizon%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=193469522X&camp=217145&creative=399349%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22%20/%3E"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vanishing Horizon</i></a>, 2011 Anhinga Press<br /><br /></div>Gerry LaFemina is the author of seven books of poems, most recently  <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193469522X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=193469522X%22%3EVanishing%20Horizon%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=193469522X&camp=217145&creative=399349%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22%20/%3E">Vanishing Horizon</a> (2011, <a href="http://www.anhinga.org/books/book_info.cfm?title=Vanishing%20Horizon">Anhinga Press</a>) and a collection of short  stories.  He directs the <a href="http://www.frostburg.edu/cwcenter/">Frostburg Center for Creative Writing</a> at  Frostburg State University where he also teaches.  He splits his time  between Maryland and New York City.<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=193469522X" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div><br />Thanks to Gerry for sharing his tattoos and poetry with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. The poem is reprinted here with the permission of the author.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div>

The Tattooed Poets Project: Gerry LaFemina

Today's tattooed poet is Gerry LaFemina. Gerry put together a narrative about his ink, which makes my job easier, and gives us a detaile...

3:02 AM

The Tattooed Poets Project: Claire Nelson

Well, dear readers, I've been waiting to post this next tattoo for over a year, ever since <a href="http://www.doriannelaux.com/">Dorianne Laux</a> posted it on her Facebook wall last April and directed me to it. This amazing tattoo belongs to Claire Nelson. Behold:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQNKq3CUzXtV3UrBMocVsWEGCX-oMvDx7kzAd5X3_Fcwt0OfemRN5kB-hNtxd32jA35_hj9pVgSMRXpjeO0Ubp5EqcqYASm0uaSmrQYmhyPOhey1kIPGUirPHWiiLuq_JDlPrvhDUcQpw/s1600/typewriter+artist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQNKq3CUzXtV3UrBMocVsWEGCX-oMvDx7kzAd5X3_Fcwt0OfemRN5kB-hNtxd32jA35_hj9pVgSMRXpjeO0Ubp5EqcqYASm0uaSmrQYmhyPOhey1kIPGUirPHWiiLuq_JDlPrvhDUcQpw/s640/typewriter+artist.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><br />This photo was taken shortly after the tattoo was done by artist <a href="http://laughinghyena.wordpress.com/">Ron Henry Wells</a>, who graciously allowed me to copy it from his site and reprint it here. He noted that he "used a antique typewriter that [he owns] as reference". He was also swift to point out that the picture's not that great, as the curve of Claire's thigh makes the tattoo look a little warped, but he swears it is straight. I would beg to differ, as the photo really captures the beauty of the tattoo and the wonderful artifice of the tattooist.<br /><br />Claire sent me a newer photo for a slightly different perspective:<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span data-jsid="text"> </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfZwL7pfXdD_N3yhdtYT4_2AqzQ2DGjycf7A9nzIktWQHVDduJWqOVrAYzo5ryHCKSXbK79aA5ox3m89aZqwByEnkxKmpQadqlQWrairL01G0Rj0EnmBcELGVdl5yA28GLiValxXJkCHE/s1600/typewriter+poet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfZwL7pfXdD_N3yhdtYT4_2AqzQ2DGjycf7A9nzIktWQHVDduJWqOVrAYzo5ryHCKSXbK79aA5ox3m89aZqwByEnkxKmpQadqlQWrairL01G0Rj0EnmBcELGVdl5yA28GLiValxXJkCHE/s400/typewriter+poet.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal">Claire explains this incredible tattoo:<br /><blockquote>"I love writing, tattoos and typewriters. When I met with <a href="http://laughinghyena.wordpress.com/">Ron</a> at <a href="http://www.anonymoustattoo.com/">Anonymous Tattoo</a> in Savannah, Georgia, he seemed as psyched about doing my tattoo as I was about getting it. Ron asked a few simple questions. “How do you feel about birds?” I felt good. “Flowers?” I also had positive feelings about flowers. And then, we were off. Two sessions and some intense pain later, I came out with this amazing tattoo. Writing will always be part of my life, and now so will this tattoo."</blockquote>Claire also shared this poem: </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><br /><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><strong>Kazoo Serenade</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br />The last nice thing you said to me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Your breath smells<br />like vodka,” </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">as I hummed at you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">through a kazoo. <br />It was an</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">original composition;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">maybe not</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">technically</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> perfect—</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I wasn’t concerned </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">with mechanics.<br />Who needs rules</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">when there are kazoos in the world? <br /><br />I did an accompanying jig</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">on a cracked patch</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">of sidewalk.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Why is cement </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">always damp<br />on summer nights? It made such a </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">satisfying smack </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">against my bare-feet,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">cool and wet,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">like the familiar kiss</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">of a person I rarely see.<br /><br />I could have danced circles around you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">all night </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">until we were both too dizzy to know</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">melody from moment,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">beauty from spit and plastic. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Instead, I unbuttoned <br />the pocket</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">on your shirt, and slipped the kazoo inside.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I don’t need retrospect</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to tell me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">you don’t deserve </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">a kazoo serenade. Oh I wish</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">it was about deserve</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and not desire. </span></div></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal">~ ~ ~</div><div class="MsoNormal">Claire Nelson is a senior Dramatic Writing major at Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. After graduation Claire will be moving to Tallahassee to pursue her M.F.A. in poetry at Florida State University. </div><br /><br />As for Ron, he is currently working out of the Boston area, but occasionally is a guest artist at <a href="http://www.threekingstattoo.com/site/">Three Kings Tattoo</a> in Brooklyn.<br /><br />Thanks to Claire for sharing one of the best tattoos we have seen in this year's Tattooed Poets Project, and for sharing her poetry as well, here on Tattoosday.<br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. The poem is reprinted here with the permission of the author.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit </span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>

The Tattooed Poets Project: Claire Nelson

Well, dear readers, I've been waiting to post this next tattoo for over a year, ever since Dorianne Laux posted it on her Facebook wall...

2:39 AM

The Tattooed Poets Project: Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan

In the first post of this year's Tattooed Poets Project (<a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2011/04/tattooed-poets-project-vicki-iorio.html">here</a>), Vicki Iorio described watching today's tattooed poet, <a href="http://www.tammynuzzomorgan.com/">Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan</a>, recite verse while being tattooed. Here is that tattoo, along with some others:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-wKPQT8oRMnD-WqfnV3D1pjplHofjykUr4fbwnvUKLpOH1qatDPbfYmxUOkj1Ryiji29TBb8OL6Z5OSVK2Bd_fGd-wwih2Dfp6p8_Fr4pQTxXI2En_WT2xO5o75JSrhHvYqt3VqVm1g/s1600/Tammy+poet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-wKPQT8oRMnD-WqfnV3D1pjplHofjykUr4fbwnvUKLpOH1qatDPbfYmxUOkj1Ryiji29TBb8OL6Z5OSVK2Bd_fGd-wwih2Dfp6p8_Fr4pQTxXI2En_WT2xO5o75JSrhHvYqt3VqVm1g/s400/Tammy+poet.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photograph by Mark Wells</td></tr></tbody></table>The word "poet" in the center of the back is self-explanatory and was inked by Syxx, at <a href="http://www.wyldchyldstudios.com/">Wyld Chyld Tattoo Studio</a>. Above that is the name "Joey," who is Tammy's husband. That was done by an artist named Kenny at a shop called Z Connection. The piece on the right is a rose, with the names of Tammy's three children and their birth dates, inked by Bob at <a href="http://www.tattoolous.com/#">Tattoo Lou's</a> on Long Island. Dave at Tattoo Lou's also did the memorial cross for Tammy's son Mike, who was killed in 1995. Tammy also has this tattoo on her foot:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHGO0iG9y0Dx1OHPTViG9917CEDQh5Y1qvhwxTBvIWNEhzaMk3jS8mfI4H0BLuuDacLYBWNRalxyN-PgucbbLxeA8HKXdwkapaQ7N949jrPjXr5p2LWIxlIJ9FGuyvEWafNNFWE4q3uiY/s1600/cat+paw.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHGO0iG9y0Dx1OHPTViG9917CEDQh5Y1qvhwxTBvIWNEhzaMk3jS8mfI4H0BLuuDacLYBWNRalxyN-PgucbbLxeA8HKXdwkapaQ7N949jrPjXr5p2LWIxlIJ9FGuyvEWafNNFWE4q3uiY/s400/cat+paw.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />That cat paw is for Tammy's cat, Maude, who passed away last October 10, and was done by Jimmy at Wyld Chyld.<br /><br />Tammy also shared some of her poetry:<br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">POEM#6<br /><br />I am not the coca cola girl, <br />the Cheez-It tidbit waiting for you to taste, <br />the limo ride to the Yankee’s game, <br />the wrangler jeans chick baking in the New Mexico sun, <br />and I never was or will be Sunday mornings in spring.<br /><br />I am the time-ticking-away second hand, <br />the flat tire on the side of the road, <br />the too high door jam, <br />the worn-out tooth brush, <br />the 59 cents in the ashtray, <br />the Lunch Poems dog-eared book, <br />and the who never forgets to tell the truth.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">SPOONS <br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">I remember when you spoon-fed me ice-cream as we lay in bed on that rainy afternoon<br />and the way your fingers tasted and your neck had a hint of sweat and I closed my eyes<br />and you drove away the dark and I called your name in a low, soft moan.<br /><br />I remember when you spooned sugar into your morning tea on that sunny Tuesday</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />and I watched you drink as if you were a foreign film I could not understand<br />and your smile told me my poetry made you hunger for more than a nine-to-five life.<br /><br />I remember when you spooned dirt into the flower pot and filled it with mums for me</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />and I was peeking out the window seeing you bent down working away humming<br />and I decided then that I was not who I wanted to be without you in my days and nights<br /><br />And I remember how after you left I packed away all the silverware, including those</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />spoons and I gave the box to the Salvation Army, hoping for some salvation of my own<br />and I drove away from our town knowing I would never see another sunset like you.</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan is a very busy woman. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">She was appointed </span><a href="http://www.co.suffolk.ny.us/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Suffolk</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">County</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Poet Laureate for 2009 – 2011. She is founder and president of <a href="http://www.tammynuzzomorgan.com/north.htm">The North Sea Poetry Scene, Inc.</a> and The North Sea Poetry Scene Press. She was nominated for Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for her poetry book, <i>Let Me Tell You Something</i>. She is<br />listed in <a href="http://www.pw.org/">Poets & Writers</a>, has penned 4 chapbooks, is Poet-in-Residence at </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1201664158"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Southampton</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.southamptonhistoricalmuseum.org/"> Historical Museum</a>, an adjunct Professor at </span><a href="http://www.briarcliffe.edu/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Briarcliffe</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">College</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, the editor of the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1201664165"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Long Island</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewevent.php/prmEventID/5636"> Sounds Anthology</a>. She hosts TNSPS’s Arts Forum TV Show on Channel 20 on Cablevision in Riverhead, N.Y. and serves as the Lead Poetry Jurist for the <a href="http://www.eastendarts.org/">East End Arts Council</a>, Riverhead, N.Y.<br /><br />Currently, Tammy is creating an archival/arts center (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><a href="http://www.lipoetryarchivalcenter.com/" target="_blank">www.lipoetryarchivalcenter.com</a>)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> for </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Long Island</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> poetry that will be a gathering place for poets. She is also currently working toward an M.F.A. at </span><a href="http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/southampton/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Southampton</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Stony</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Brook</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">University</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks to Tammy for sharing her work, both written and tattooed, here on Tattoosday!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. The poem is reprinted here with the permission of the author.<br /><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit </span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

The Tattooed Poets Project: Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan

In the first post of this year's Tattooed Poets Project ( here ), Vicki Iorio described watching today's tattooed poet, Tammy Nuzzo-...

4:49 AM

The Tattooed Poets Project: Patricia Carragon

Our second tattooed poet this month is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Patricia-Carragon/e/B003Z9SGG8">Patricia Carragon</a>, a New York City poet who was instrumental in helping send several other poets our way for the Tattooed Poets Project this year.<br /><br />I was fortunate enough to meet Patricia back in February, where I shot this photo of her ink, at my local Borders store:<br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI5EAm1bkZxCxHU1dX4YuXWwkYXSrpsLxcjcPayh6ww71ukOcLN6ybVWLVO8I9qVQ2jpc7pqA9pjRnQ-OE-aGGD8K8GrSOJisCPmmpISz7D76BQ5xnRUkwSbWzn7oDd1yY_moUbj39BaY/s1600/carragon+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI5EAm1bkZxCxHU1dX4YuXWwkYXSrpsLxcjcPayh6ww71ukOcLN6ybVWLVO8I9qVQ2jpc7pqA9pjRnQ-OE-aGGD8K8GrSOJisCPmmpISz7D76BQ5xnRUkwSbWzn7oDd1yY_moUbj39BaY/s400/carragon+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Patricia sent along this narrative about her Rose-Tattoo Bracelet:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It was a Saturday afternoon in October, 1997.  I was finally going to get a sexy rose bracelet tattooed above my right ankle.  I’ve already had a referral from my hairdresser to do it at <a href="http://www.nyadorned.com/">New York Adorned</a> on Second Avenue.  I recalled having a henna design painted on my right wrist by a street artist in SoHo earlier that summer – and loved it.  I was tired of wearing ankle bracelets that would snap off without notice.  Since I didn’t have a picture with me, I searched for possibilities in the tattoo parlor’s books.  Not one rose drawing fit the image engraved in my head.  A tattoo artist would have the honor of fulfilling my request.  Unfortunately, it was Saturday and it was busy.  I knew I would not be home until after eight, and supper would have to be much later.  I had no choice, but to call home.  I wanted to surprise my mother without dealing with her pre-ink drama.  But that was not meant to be.  </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Oh… a rose-tattoo bracelet?  Can lasers remove it?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Yes, Mom, but I’m not going to do that.  I’ll be home in a few hours.  Bye…"</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">My time arrived.  I had coffee sweetened with sugar about an hour ago. Although I was warned that my body needed solid food and sugar to prevent passing out during the procedure, I still didn’t want to overeat because of supper.  My artist drew on paper the bracelet that would be outlined above my ankle.  I adored the rose-chain stencil on my body.  I was ready for baptism by ink – peachy pink for the roses and yellow-green for the leaves.  </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Once propped up on the cot, the needle pierced my skin and began its journey along the artist’s outline.  Surprisingly, I didn’t feel any pain.  As minutes passed, the needle worked along the design’s path.  About halfway through, the needle must have sent some negative signals to my brain.  A sudden feeling of dizziness overcame me.  The needle immediately stopped.  My slender tattooist and his colleague, who resembled a burly motorcyclist, carried me to another room where I was fed Halloween candy.  An ice pack was placed in back of my head.  I rested for approximately twenty minutes.  I recovered and was ready for the needle and my rose bracelet’s completion.  I apologized for what had happened, knowing that, with low blood pressure, I should have been more careful.  The heavy-set tattooist told me not to feel bad.  Even the toughest-looking customers pass out under the needle.  </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Feeling better, I sat up on the cot and watched the needle complete the outline.  Then came the application of the colors.  My roses became part of my skin and self-expression.  </div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Wrapped in Bacitracin and Saran Wrap, I got dressed.  It was worth charging this bracelet on one of my plastic cards.  I wish that I had saved the receipt.  I think it probably cost me one-hundred-eighty dollars.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Later that night, Mom made a comment when I undid the Saran Wrap.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Oh… you got a large tattoo.  I thought you were going for one rose?  Can lasers still remove it?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVc9jOqTE1gan6xaAh9_wlUs1_FKQjQ5knFKgJUSEgwM7iRJYjNbKLDbOnI67c10LsvXpCT25wzxFdWoWX7GJ1WuZQAkMQnMp2OTtS-z4BjFd4y01BX-I5gUXVv5bG8O5ZAGI6WnCOd6I/s1600/carragon+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVc9jOqTE1gan6xaAh9_wlUs1_FKQjQ5knFKgJUSEgwM7iRJYjNbKLDbOnI67c10LsvXpCT25wzxFdWoWX7GJ1WuZQAkMQnMp2OTtS-z4BjFd4y01BX-I5gUXVv5bG8O5ZAGI6WnCOd6I/s400/carragon+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Yes, Mom, but I’m not going to do that.  I spent money on this tattoo and I’m keeping it for life.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">What was a novelty back in the late ’90s is now the norm today.  The roses above my right ankle, sadly, look faded after fourteen years.  I wish I had the money to bring back their color.  At least Mom stopped giving me prickly advice about getting laser treatment.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i>Patricia Carragon  February 2011</i></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Patricia also sent along the following prose piece. And, although it is not a poem, this is the Tattooed Poets Project, not the Tattooed Poems Project:</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #993399; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Cupcake Chronicles #9- Friday evening before midnight, February 13, 2009</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #993399; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #993399; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #993399; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was the end of the world.  All the cupcakes disappeared overnight.  All the bakeshops stopped making them.  All the recipes became blank pages in cookbooks.  All pictures, photographs, ceramics and artifacts depicting cupcakes vanished.  All memories died, except for mine.  I cried all night until I fell asleep.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #993399; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #993399; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the morning, I felt bloated as I rose from my bed.  I passed the mirror and noticed how voluptuous my boobs looked.  I headed for the fridge and invaded the pickle and peanut butter jars.  I decided to add garlic and paprika on a scoop of vanilla ice cream.  My appetite craved unusual combinations.  My period was a month and a half late.  It was time to call my gyn. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #993399; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #993399; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The sonogram showed multiple fetuses.  They had arms and legs, hands and feet, but the rest of the picture was too bizarre for the doctor to describe.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #993399; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #993399; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She was quiet for a few seconds before getting up the courage to say<i>, “Congratulations, you’re having a baker’s dozen.”</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #993399; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #660000; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Patricia Carragon</b></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 10pt;"><b>'s </b>publications include <i><a href="http://www.bigcitylit.com/">Big City Lit</a>, <a href="http://www.clockwisecat.blogspot.com/">Clockwise Cat</a>, <a href="http://dansemacabre.art.officelive.com/default.aspx">Danse Macabre</a>, <a href="http://mobiusmagazine.com/index.html">MÖBIUS</a>, The Poetry Magazine, </i><i><a href="http://www.madhattersreview.com/">Mad Hatters’ Review</a>,</i> <a href="http://thetorontoquarterly.blogspot.com/"><i>The Toronto Quarterly</i></a>, and more. She is the author of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0977402290/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0977402290%22%3EJourney%20To%20The%20Center%20Of%20My%20Mind%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=0977402290%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Journey to the Center of My Mind</i></a> (Rogue Scholars Press)and <a href="http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/2011/01/urban-haiku-and-more-at-st-marks.html"><i>Urban Haiku and More</i></a> (Fierce Grace Press). She curates the Brooklyn-based <a href="http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/">Brownstone Poets</a> and is the editor of the annual anthology. </span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Thanks to Patricia for sharing her rose-bracelet tattoo, the story behind it, as well as a sample of her writing. I am grateful, not only for her participation, but for her sending out the clarion call for more tattooed poets this year!<br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=0977402290" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday.<br /><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit </span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. 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The Tattooed Poets Project: Patricia Carragon

Our second tattooed poet this month is Patricia Carragon , a New York City poet who was instrumental in helping send several other poets our...

3:52 AM

Tattoorism: Sean Returns, Part 2

Last week, I shared more of reader Sean's vast tat-alog <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2011/01/tattoorism-sean-returns-part-1.html">here</a>. It's time to finish off our inventory of this very generous fan o' the site. Let's see what we have: <br /><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPDQQqXPFieFHjqlqq2cHhVe9tbmGy1yQsq1juEKJgsJaaAf6jX16lu6j1EyWf0BK2D4vXhn5zEqOv5LP0xzxhS14WyE1j5RZSw_P3t_c8JbLupzoeqQ1u8y53FpRG7OQ3tTknjgMo-Wc/s1600/Hope+ship.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPDQQqXPFieFHjqlqq2cHhVe9tbmGy1yQsq1juEKJgsJaaAf6jX16lu6j1EyWf0BK2D4vXhn5zEqOv5LP0xzxhS14WyE1j5RZSw_P3t_c8JbLupzoeqQ1u8y53FpRG7OQ3tTknjgMo-Wc/s400/Hope+ship.jpg" width="190" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">...I got a clipper ship on my upper arm.  The ship is navigating    through a background of clouds and lightning bolts and has a banner    underneath reading “Hope.”  Its meaning follows the same idea behind my    anchor tattoo.  Hope is a huge part of having a positive mental    attitude, which I try (sometimes with little luck, of course) to hold at    all times.  It’s a reminder that you can make it through stormy parts   of  your life, no matter how bad they get.  It’s also done in the    traditional style I love so much.  The tattoo was done by <a href="http://electrictattoonj.com/section/6907_MIKE_SCHWEIGERT.html">Mike   Schweigert</a> at <a href="http://electrictattoonj.com/home.html">Electric Tattoo</a> in Bradley Beach, NJ.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While  attending [the 2010] <a href="http://www.myspace.com/philadelphiatattooarts">Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention</a>,  I decided to  get a  tattoo to commemorate my first convention.  For as  many years as   tattoos have been a part of my life, this was my first  convention...I got a blue rose with a candle spouting out of it in    between my sparrows and flower on my outer elbow. </div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8aDlU9a4s21t1o2kjYcZJgVsiIKrr2mUiHwFbU4oI_yloclIj6R4l0KjCojU_VdtCx7sOTMKi1P-XMSzeT4SnplVgYxo49iZ8Jk6Nl8VVByWO9Ucnw4sHo8JPpDCgVld6hfwSKidE1oA/s1600/rose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8aDlU9a4s21t1o2kjYcZJgVsiIKrr2mUiHwFbU4oI_yloclIj6R4l0KjCojU_VdtCx7sOTMKi1P-XMSzeT4SnplVgYxo49iZ8Jk6Nl8VVByWO9Ucnw4sHo8JPpDCgVld6hfwSKidE1oA/s400/rose.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I’m a firm believer   in everyone  having a different reasoning for getting tattoos.  Some are   used as  place markers in one’s life, some are used to remember an  event,  some  have deep profound meanings and some are just aesthetically   pleasing. I  could probably come up with some in depth meaning behind  the  tattoo,  but in the end, I got it to commemorate my first tattoo   convention and  that’s pretty much the only reason.  Done by Rocco at   <a href="http://www.deathorglorytattoos.com/">Death or Glory Tattoos</a> in Westbrook, Maine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Finally,  I got my outer elbow to forearm  done with a snake  coiling through a  skull and dagger and impaling itself  on the dagger’s  blade.  </div></blockquote><br /><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmOi2fJXchYSsS0LvvcnA5E3JlxoKSOoH7K52sFyyjZbox5LOZoj30aLeYRBs8Zqe1x0KB8yg0l5PLaibpX0g7fHk5Va7xMLCAiL3-ItwTDzPC3SdmgI_cdSRXV4ZPfK3Dfw0ocTjXiCU/s1600/convention+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmOi2fJXchYSsS0LvvcnA5E3JlxoKSOoH7K52sFyyjZbox5LOZoj30aLeYRBs8Zqe1x0KB8yg0l5PLaibpX0g7fHk5Va7xMLCAiL3-ItwTDzPC3SdmgI_cdSRXV4ZPfK3Dfw0ocTjXiCU/s400/convention+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I usually try to go out of my way to ensure  that my   friends/family/other people in general are happy, more often  than I   would like to admit, putting their happiness before my well-being.    This tattoo serves as a reminder for me not to do that so much,  and to   focus on myself sometimes.  The snake can be viewed as a  protection   figure, coiling around and through the rest of the tattoo,  but has also   caused injury to itself by doing so.  Basically, its my  reminder that   as much as I would like to help others, I need to keep my  own  happiness  and well being in mind before I choose which action to  take  or I’ll  end up injuring myself in the process.  Done by Mike   Schweigert at  Electric Tattoo in Bradley Beach, NJ. </div></blockquote><br />A hearty thanks to Sean for continuing to share his tattoos with us over the years!

Tattoorism: Sean Returns, Part 2

Last week, I shared more of reader Sean's vast tat-alog here . It's time to finish off our inventory of this very generous fan o...

2:33 AM

Sharon's Bird on a Saturday

At the end of September, I spotted this bird on the left side of Sharon's upper back:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjOVyDOIY0vbPedRFSht6L0pnbd5aq0cHHuKJXXgu28kkBvgsQP_genBgt4uT_VR1UkjoMY70V3-2D4AJrYDFtqQgfp6lyeGmmbsndKI2l55YtsNags5h0ux6fCLt-kTOklezmgYnjsfo/s1600/Sharons+Bird+wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjOVyDOIY0vbPedRFSht6L0pnbd5aq0cHHuKJXXgu28kkBvgsQP_genBgt4uT_VR1UkjoMY70V3-2D4AJrYDFtqQgfp6lyeGmmbsndKI2l55YtsNags5h0ux6fCLt-kTOklezmgYnjsfo/s400/Sharons+Bird+wm.jpg" width="317" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sharon drew this herself and had it tattooed at <a href="http://www.myspace.com/fatcattattooshop">Fat Cat Tattoo</a> in Sacramento, California.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'd love to tell you more about this tattoo, but Sharon never e-mailed me to give me more details. Nonetheless, it's some nice work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs_JpfOk7zyCjuJ4BW43t8n9KQ9CpZXcp6IJUH5uolEv20BRf840Eoius3X65NBmZGNo1s0LJf_60v-zrskJeOcoytPKPGprujE_2UpHMwVyyiWWPsfFREPCNfx3lirOXrMrq9eWMbq8c/s1600/Sharons+Bird+Detail+wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs_JpfOk7zyCjuJ4BW43t8n9KQ9CpZXcp6IJUH5uolEv20BRf840Eoius3X65NBmZGNo1s0LJf_60v-zrskJeOcoytPKPGprujE_2UpHMwVyyiWWPsfFREPCNfx3lirOXrMrq9eWMbq8c/s400/Sharons+Bird+Detail+wm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Thanks to Sharon for sharing her bird with us here on Tattoosday!

Sharon's Bird on a Saturday

At the end of September, I spotted this bird on the left side of Sharon's upper back: Sharon drew this herself and had it tattooed at ...

7:37 AM

David's Traditional Hands

Last month I met David when I stopped after noticing his neck tattoo. However, it was his hands he offered up to us here at Tattoosday:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Yq7GGSvYMPN8utZpvGlSdcLGI6guxGUZHdZrTs5EwF4PYABMY8lfa90hrt9jtui6HsekTQKvaNUsjtCQTL0zcW3O6O43vRw27LoBN1OjMtFVUTWXCElW20uzDtPjzog2IKnGBoPj9ts/s1600/Davids+Hands+wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Yq7GGSvYMPN8utZpvGlSdcLGI6guxGUZHdZrTs5EwF4PYABMY8lfa90hrt9jtui6HsekTQKvaNUsjtCQTL0zcW3O6O43vRw27LoBN1OjMtFVUTWXCElW20uzDtPjzog2IKnGBoPj9ts/s400/Davids+Hands+wm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />David works in construction and is a contractor. He also manages the band, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/DREW-NUGENT-THE-MIDNIGHT-SOCIETY/165439868308">Drew Nugent & the Midnight Society</a>.<br /><br />He has about thirty-five (35) hours of work done on his body, and he explained that these are traditional pieces on his hands.<br /><br />He was inspired to have his knuckles read "True Blue" as they speak to his belief that our country has lost its values that need to be regained. Key among these values are loyalty and honor, in the traditional, "true blue" sense of the words.<br /><br />To him, the panther represents that we need to fight to regain these ideals.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsW1s4JUKP3PwGuUFqOuHZXt2BvJsssXxvlTfDh6ERWZHU566zl46PEhPLf79RPI-ksaF6Jk7_npRFxjGKJzAZeKd4vzjX3fVZ9tJBg3bx2s7MbN1yQwt938Sasrnq-9c7Zj2ENKyVTQk/s1600/Davids+Hands+detail+wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsW1s4JUKP3PwGuUFqOuHZXt2BvJsssXxvlTfDh6ERWZHU566zl46PEhPLf79RPI-ksaF6Jk7_npRFxjGKJzAZeKd4vzjX3fVZ9tJBg3bx2s7MbN1yQwt938Sasrnq-9c7Zj2ENKyVTQk/s400/Davids+Hands+detail+wm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />And the two roses represent the ideal (the healthy, red flower on the right hand) and what he called the "diminished," (on the left) that is, where we're headed with our loss of values.<br /><br />David embraced these traditional elements because he feels that "the only way to have a future is to look at the past".<br /><br />He had the panther done at a tattoo convention. The roses and "TRUE BLUE" knuckles are credited to Rick Meggison at <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling3/metalnips/about/">Marked 4 Life</a> in York, Pennsylvania.<br /><br />Thanks to David for sharing these very cool hand tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

David's Traditional Hands

Last month I met David when I stopped after noticing his neck tattoo. However, it was his hands he offered up to us here at Tattoosday: Davi...

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Tim's Bleeding Rose

I mentioned in <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2010/11/not-your-typical-knuckles-tattoo.html">my last post</a> that I met three guys on their way to New York Comic Con when they stopped and shared their tattoos.<br /><br />Below we have Tim's contribution, one of his nine tattoos: <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP9NhEAS6PoS33DVclK1gZd0UNZHYekG22qR0wpYdazaR3H_sYM1FF7iBV-QRnjxCjheSvo8YUDNFLplu2a16_Jxnv5h18zf5d8bqLkW3MLSB101lt-YY6ljlIVmc1qFKb90vg-iAl7N4/s1600/bleeding+rose+wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP9NhEAS6PoS33DVclK1gZd0UNZHYekG22qR0wpYdazaR3H_sYM1FF7iBV-QRnjxCjheSvo8YUDNFLplu2a16_Jxnv5h18zf5d8bqLkW3MLSB101lt-YY6ljlIVmc1qFKb90vg-iAl7N4/s640/bleeding+rose+wm.jpg" width="268" /> </a></div><br />This piece, on his forearm, is a bleeding rose.<br /><br />It was tattooed by Christopher Wilkie at <a href="http://petertat2studio.com/ptat21.html">Peter Tat-2</a> in West Hempstead, New York.<br /><br />Tim added that the yellow highlights in the tattoo are a subtle tribute to <a href="http://www.hulkhogan.com/">Hulk Hogan</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Tim for sharing his tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Tim's Bleeding Rose

I mentioned in my last post that I met three guys on their way to New York Comic Con when they stopped and shared their tattoos. Below we h...

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Bryan's Memorial Rose

Bryan was around the corner from where I work with this rose on display:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnFhNdSKgCSFf5JZ21W__eqLL3mRZKzeryiMSKHhIbxZ78I5E_4OKrzj9WrR805KwJKo1zc9BkpVOYwJ_NF9ZHuR6jtuP6eoQtDF-IwUtYYdEXuPBc7HivYqcrlTFCN4fjaAJl2vSS/s1600/bryan+rose+wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnFhNdSKgCSFf5JZ21W__eqLL3mRZKzeryiMSKHhIbxZ78I5E_4OKrzj9WrR805KwJKo1zc9BkpVOYwJ_NF9ZHuR6jtuP6eoQtDF-IwUtYYdEXuPBc7HivYqcrlTFCN4fjaAJl2vSS/s640/bryan+rose+wm.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br />Perched on his left elbow, the tattoo is identical to one that a friend of his had.<br /><br />When his friend died, Bryan chose to commemorate his friend's memory by going to the artist that did the original tattoo on his friend, and asked for the same drawing be used to recreate the tattoo on himself.<br /><br />The artist was <a href="http://www.screaminink.com/agent.php">Agent</a> at <a href="http://www.screaminink.com/index.php">Screamin' Ink Tattoo</a> in New Jersey.<br /><br />Thanks to Bryan for sharing this memorable tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Bryan's Memorial Rose

Bryan was around the corner from where I work with this rose on display: Perched on his left elbow, the tattoo is identical to one that a fr...

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