tattoo
(5.25.21)

I wake with a tattoo on my body
that reminds me of the promise I was made.
A clear NEVER is sure to do the trick-
whatever I can do to disract the ache.
It reminds me of leaving, abandoning without trying
It is clear somehow, as if invented the day preceding
whatever miracle by with this was produced.
I wake with a tattoo nowhere to be found.