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    Tattoo Land
    Tattoo Land
    Tattoo Land
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    Tattoo Land

    By Kathleen McCracken

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateAug 24, 2018
    ISBN9781550967456
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      Book preview

      Tattoo Land - Kathleen McCracken

      Formatting note:

      In the electronic versions of this book blank pages that appear in the paperback have been removed.

      TATTOO LAND

      Kathleen McCracken

      Publishers of singular Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama, Translation and Graphic Books

      2009

      All rights reserved; copyright © Kathleen McCracken, 2009

      ISBN

      978-1-55096-128-7 (pbk)

      978-1-55096-745-6 (epub)

      978-1-55096-746-3 (MOBI)

      978-1-55096-747-0 (PDF)

      Design and Composition by KellEnK Styleset

      Cover/Interior Lithograph by permission of Gabriela Campos

      Published by Exile Editions Ltd ~ www.ExileEditions.com

      144483 Southgate Road 14 – GD, Holstein, Ontario, N0G 2A0

      PDF, ePUB and MOBI versions by Melissa Campos Mendivil

      Publication Copyright © Exile Editions, 2009. All rights reserved We gratefully acknowledge, for their support toward our publishing activities, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

      Exile Editions eBooks are for personal use of the original buyer only. You may not modify, transmit, publish, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the content of this eBook, in whole or in part, without the expressed written consent of the publisher; to do so is an infringement of the copyright and other intellectual property laws. Any inquiries regarding publication rights, translation rights, or film rights –or if you consider this version to be a pirated copy – please contact us via e-mail at: info@exileeditions.com

      for J

      solo amado

      So this Green Automobile:

      I give you in flight

      a present, a present

      from my imagination.

      —ALLEN GINSBERG, The Green Automobile

      Footprints runnin’ ’cross the silver sand

      Steps goin’ down into tattoo land

      I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light

      In the bordertowns of despair

      —BOB DYLAN,Dignity

      Contents

      I

      Snow Tea

      II

      Snow Moon

      Will It Fly?

      Just the Sky

      Airships

      Windfall

      Trains at Tempe

      Allen Ginsberg’s Bed

      Bob Dylan’s Paintings

      The Map Is Not the Territory

      At Medicine Lake

      Angelino

      The Etymology of Animal

      Totem Dreams

      White Horse

      Green Snake

      Red Otter

      Burying the Raven

      Ottersong

      Flight

      III

      The Creation of Man

      Sleeping in Your Mother’s House

      Enter Tezcatlipoca

      Virtual

      No More Knives

      Leaving Azure for Jasper

      Caz

      Feathers

      Ease

      Bone Tattoo

      Ancient Twins

      Lemniscate

      What Gold We Gather

      My You

      Kilrea in Gemini

      Torr Head

      The Elephants in Ann Street

      Drinking Mojitos with Ali in the Japanese Restaurant in Belfast

      Big Yellow Boots

      Waiting for Snow

      Jackalope High

      The House with One Hundred Rooms

      IV

      Threshold

      Density/Distance

      Tench

      Hollow Bone

      Seven Poems after Frida Kahlo They Ask for Planes and Only Get Straw Wings

      The Flying Bed

      The Mask

      The Wounded Deer

      Thinking about Death

      The Dream

      Roots

      Un Hombre del Camino

      La Casa del Anhelo

      Sueño del Padre

      The Sun on His Back

      Tattoo Land

      Acknowledgements

      I

      Snow Tea

      for Robert and Shirley McCracken

      That June the lilacs came in heavy

      as if they knew something about the summer in store.

      Fiesta, we called them, manna from the western mountains.

      (I was ten, he was thirty seven)

      With a bone hilted Texas jackknife

      he cut their corded stems

      through milkweed pastures carried them

      armfuls of raincloud, back to me counting

      nickels in his flatbed pickup truck.

      ***

      A

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