tattoo

coconut cream paper

woven inlay

behind a shadow

only visible through glass

.

boiling bubbles

solar rays dissolve pupil ink

from a window

burning organic compounds en masse

.

fizzled folio

fading fast into

a summer shade drawn

filling the room in dusk

.

crinkled chunks

of charred pigment set in

like a stick n’ poke tattoo

covering the canvas with rough tree trunk

.

blistering boils bobble

just underneath the flesh injected

before the pain can even settle down

dyeing the flesh in night sky thrash.