Tattoosday (A Tattoo Blog): Designs by Dana

Today's tattooed poet is Katie Ford Hall. <div style="font-family: inherit;">Katie sent us this photo of her tattoo: </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghGYuCopXBmdk9nLSaXznY8O6JdUmOLeLIoKJAHA_bvLael8nXG9uZ1JHsaCJg0H-M5Dt4vlqLczXtQLVfyc2k1ddKf8YBYImViigdgnFrmhq_gG77VasjXOqnWAyudDp-SdPf1Gp3vvE/s1600/katie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghGYuCopXBmdk9nLSaXznY8O6JdUmOLeLIoKJAHA_bvLael8nXG9uZ1JHsaCJg0H-M5Dt4vlqLczXtQLVfyc2k1ddKf8YBYImViigdgnFrmhq_gG77VasjXOqnWAyudDp-SdPf1Gp3vvE/s400/katie.jpg" width="400" /> </a> </div> Katie explains: <blockquote>I got my tattoo in 1992 when I was 25.  I had been considering a tattoo for awhile and decided on a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claddagh_ring">Claddagh</a> to honor my Irish roots.  My grandparents were immigrants and I look the part.  I've always felt very connected to Ireland and whether it's nature or nurture, I seem to embody a lot of the well-known characteristics.  For the design, I used a ring I had been wearing for years.  I consider it good luck because no matter how hard I try, I never seem to be able to lose it.  I took it to <a href="http://www.danatattoo.com/">Designs By Dana</a> in Cincinnati, Ohio and one of the artists copied it onto my left arm. </blockquote>For a poem, Katie offered us this: <blockquote> The Thing Itself <div> There’s a shadow outside my kitchen window – falling on Japanese maple; sweeping over swing set. A corner of the eye distraction from the scraping of a crusty pan</div><div> then again a flicker as I turn around to say ‘chicken’s ready’ there was a me who became a secret – when the time came for a me to set an example – the secret dances across grass on the cool dew of thick summer nights reckless and unbounded, compelling and unglued. oblivious to consequences, blind to ramifications Dancing born of a shame and hunger denied by laughter denied by wet heavy air and denied again -- three times before dawn Sacrificed at the altar of the inevitable And laid to rest in the tomb of the proper A life that can’t be sustained must be set free, traded for half acre lots stainless steel appliances and the dream of a freer next generation But there’s still that shadow. I suspect it’s me and I suspect that shadows resurrected fall just beyond an infinity of suburban kitchen windows. Never mentioned barely noticed   banished to the edges of anxious eyes </div><div style="text-align: center;"> ~  ~  ~ </div></blockquote>Katie Ford Hall is 43 years old and lives on the edge of civilization just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband and two children.  Her poetry has appeared in several online and print journals including <a href="http://www.chantarellesnotebook.com/">Chantarelle's Notebook</a>, <a href="http://ancientheartmagazine.blogspot.com/">Ancient Heart Magazine</a>, <a href="http://www.womenwriting.org/writing.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Women Writing for (a) Change anthologies</a> and For A Better World 2005: Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice by Greater Cincinnati Artists.  She contributed a story to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/098258069X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=098258069X%22%3EWhen%20One%20Door%20Closes:%20Reflections%20from%20Women%20on%20Life%27s%20Turning%20Points%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=098258069X%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22%20/%3E">When One Door Closes: Reflections from Women on Life's Turning Points</a> and has written feature stories for<a href="http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/"> CityBeat Magazine</a> and <a href="http://www.marketlist.com/cincinnati-woman-magazine/dt/1494/">Cincinnati Woman Magazine</a>. These days, she can be found blogging all over the place, but mostly on <a href="http://www.uneasypink.com/" style="font-family: inherit;">Uneasy Pink</a>, her blog about breast cancer-related issues. Many thanks to Katie for sharing her poem and her tattoo with us here on Tattoosday! <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. The poem is reprinted here with the permission of the author. If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</div></div>

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