Tattoo
in winter
Ink is frozen under layers of cloth
like a painted mummy in the permafrost
of the far Siberian plain;
stories suspended till spring,
though just once in a while, somewhere
unexpected, a Christmas party, say,
colour leaches into light, blood in
snow.
Its wearer becomes shaman.
Give her the stick, let her speak.
Kate Noakes
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