I’m sharing this again. For anyone who’s ever wondered where the line of poetry tattooed on my right arm is from, this is it.
Most people ask to read my tattoo and then give the overly serious nod and slight side-eye and move swiftly on to another topic. I’ll admit, it doesn’t make much sense out of context, taking only the following lines from the above;
‘I send my rockets forth/between my ears’
As an avid fan of both poetry and space travel, an image which merged the two ideas was irresistible to me and I couldn’t not steal it.
But the poem as a whole is something I think best experienced in context.
Rebecca Roy 