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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Edytta A. Wojnar


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Tattoos

on skin's delicate canvas
a needle embroiders
directions
for living
dispersed
like petals of a cherry flower
inevitably wilting
the way names do
circling
in black ink
the inside of an arm
to be deciphered on a deathbed
like hieroglyphs and other
mysteries.