via instagram @vanessavtattoo (www.facebook.com/vanessavtattoo/) Tattoo done by Vanessa Vobk

via instagram @vanessavtattoo(https://www.facebook.com/vanessavtattoo/)

Tattoo done by Vanessa Vobker at @signedandsealedtattoo(http://www.signedandsealed.de/), Kemnastrasse 17
45657 Recklinghausen, Germany

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POPPIES IN JULY

Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?

You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.

And it exhausts me to watch you
Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth.

A mouth just bloodied.
Little bloody skirts!

There are fumes that I cannot touch.
Where are your opiates, your nauseous capsules?

If I could bleed, or sleep!–
If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!

Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,
Dulling and stilling.

But colorless. Colorless.