Beggar's Banquet

                for Micah Ballard

Pattern of stars from shoulder to bicep

Dragon (at the nape of the neck) clutching a large pearl
it’s body snaking along the spine

HUNGER in gothic script on back of left hand

Bolivar Blues
The Land Beyond Land’s End
a set of intructions on how to work with fiberglass

5 foot curl in green with white foam a movement
in perpetuum

sand in my shoes

There are 108 distinctive signs of perfection
none of which are apparent at this juncture

“Prodigal Son” on the right pectoral

a twilight situation the heart
only slightly bruised

“Say it isn’t so, or lie & say it is”

an anchor
a dagger
a pierced heart
crown of thorns

The Mermaid’s Song

Emblems of some past wisdom
on the tip of her tongue