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JB Claywell
Poems
Dec 2015
Comfort in Blood and Ink
that buzz starts
and my palms flood with
sweat.
the needle hits flesh
and it’s all familiar;
I’ve been here before.
still, it’s all forgotten,
except for the idea
that the images I’ve
asked him to mix up
on my arm are very comforting
to me.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
and an ink pen,
I’ve grown up surrounded
by both,
so to stir them together is safe
in its sacrilege,
not sacrilegious at all;
permissible in fact,
because of their combined power,
a display of faith in my own
ability to create, to destroy
darkness and demons
with notebooks and prayers
offered from a small stage,
through a live microphone,
or in a coffeehouse with
the newsman,
the laureate,
the tiger,
the bundle of nerves,
and the denim-clad
troubadour.
Our Lady of Poetry
will watch over us all,
in our church,
the church of the spoken-word.
*
©P&ZPublications; 2015
-JBClaywell
new tattoo!
Written by
JB Claywell
45/M/Missouri
(45/M/Missouri)
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