#calf tattoos
via instagram @vanessavtattoo(https://www.facebook.com/vanessavtattoo/)
Tattoo done by Vanessa Vobker at @signedandsealedtattoo(http://www.signedandsealed.de/), Kemnastrasse 17
45657 Recklinghausen, Germany
(Please don’t forget to also like the picture there)
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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.
—Sylvia Plath, written 20 July 1962, Ariel, 1965
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