The Tattooed Poets Project: kathryn l. pringle

Our next tattooed poet is <a href="http://kathrynlpringle.blogspot.com/">kathryn l. pringle</a>, who sent us this tattoo on her left arm::<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTFTVwE_0442ojJQzo_w3TJCzVWb0rsEuVIqf8ehyphenhyphenAzsW7mymsSqTxEPDNvIUV7hOVUaTFjOSc-Sck-zNYmwIWbeyTJB2pPW1pWCRT4k2wxJSibFEvSYvMBu3IatAKUk_XGXby9pPrV8o/s615/pringle,+kathryn+l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTFTVwE_0442ojJQzo_w3TJCzVWb0rsEuVIqf8ehyphenhyphenAzsW7mymsSqTxEPDNvIUV7hOVUaTFjOSc-Sck-zNYmwIWbeyTJB2pPW1pWCRT4k2wxJSibFEvSYvMBu3IatAKUk_XGXby9pPrV8o/s640/pringle,+kathryn+l.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><br /><br />kathryn offered up this background of the piece:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"when i was 18 years old, i decided to get a tattoo of a spider on a purple web on my right shoulder. only, it never really looked like a spider on a web. it looked more like a peacock. so, at 26, very sick of people asking me about the wimpy peacock on my shoulder, i went into <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Monkey-Wrench/174250662585147">Monkey Wrench</a> tattoo shop in Santa Rosa, CA and talked to Billy the Pope about my options. he said only two things would do the trick: a panther or a dragon. intrigued more by the dragon option, i asked him to draw up some ideas and o, by the way, can you tattoo these chinese characters for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei">wu wei</a> [from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism">Taoism</a>] on my arm before i go home? and so he did. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-uGn9QoWFfjRc5URwqB3iLva4Ox2bACo1YxiZBSpVM1J6lr2wftTBWwnVXTJGjZHwERcQaGqSR9yWGgGWamoI08bORwTTknW2ZqM4Hx82nrZOKmtChHy-SIA0TpRjfM1f5A-m-McUIjg/s570/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-uGn9QoWFfjRc5URwqB3iLva4Ox2bACo1YxiZBSpVM1J6lr2wftTBWwnVXTJGjZHwERcQaGqSR9yWGgGWamoI08bORwTTknW2ZqM4Hx82nrZOKmtChHy-SIA0TpRjfM1f5A-m-McUIjg/s400/photo.jpg" width="365" /></a></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">two weeks later i go back in, and there's my dragon - carefully drawn out on very thin paper. we started work: it took 9 2-hour sessions. Billy was so excited, he was beside himself. he got to do something more creative than the usual rose or sailor. and i got to cover up that ridiculous peacock."</blockquote><br />kathryn sent us this poem:<br /><br /><b>from <i>civil engineering</i></b><br /><br />what do you know<br />of my lungs<br /><br />what of my breathing<br />my expansiveness<br />or pulmonary life<br /><br />in the pockets of yr lungs<br />the tiniest fragments<br />penetrating<br />careful not to puncture<br /><br />a stick in the ribs<br /><br />that’s what it feels like<br /><br />a stick in the ribs<br /><br />to care about humans<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><br />kathryn l. pringle lives in Oakland, CA. She is the author of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1890650706/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1890650706&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3EFault%20Tree%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1890650706%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">fault tree</a> (winner of <a href="http://www.omnidawn.com/">Omindawn’s</a> <a href="http://www.omnidawn.com/contest/poetry-contests.htm">1st/2nd book prize</a> selected by <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/728">C.D. Wright</a>), <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1600010571/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1600010571&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3ERight%20New%20Biology%20(Heretical%20Texts)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1600010571%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY</a> (<a href="http://www.factoryschool.org/ht/index.html">Heretical Texts/Factory School</a>), <a href="http://www.durationpress.com/bookstore/ebooks/pringle/pringle.pdf">The Stills</a> (<a href="http://www.durationpress.com/">Duration Press</a>), and <a href="http://taxtpress.blogspot.com/2006/06/pringle.html">Temper and Felicity are Lovers</a>.(<a href="http://taxtpress.blogspot.com/">TAXT</a>). Poems can be found in <a href="http://www.denverquarterly.com/">Denver Quarterly</a>, <a href="http://www.epiphanyzine.com/">Epiphany</a>, <a href="http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/publications/fence.html">Fence</a>, <a href="http://mrsmaybe.wordpress.com/about/">Mrs. Maybe</a>, <a href="http://www.phoebejournal.com/">Phoebe</a>, and fiction can be found in <a href="http://www.manorhousequarterly.com/">Manor House Quarterly</a> and <a href="http://horselesspress.com/horse-less-review/">Horse Less Review</a>. Her work can also be found in the anthologies <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1466239549/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1466239549&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3EConversations%20at%20the%20Wartime%20Cafe:%20a%20Decade%20of%20War%202001-2011%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1466239549%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">Conversations at the Wartime Cafe: A Decade of War</a> (WODV Press), <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1934254339/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1934254339&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3EI'll%20Drown%20My%20Book:%20Conceptual%20Writing%20by%20Women%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1934254339%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women</a> (<a href="http://www.lesfigues.com/lfp/index.php">Les Figues</a>), and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1937658074/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1937658074&linkCode=as2&tag=bill03-20%22%3EThe%20Sonnets:%20Translating%20and%20Rewriting%20Shakespeare%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1937658074%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare</a> (<a href="http://www.nightboat.org/">Nightboat Books</a>). In 2013, she was a very grateful recipient of a gift from the Fund for Poetry.<br /><br />Thanks to kathryn for sharing her poem and tattoo with us here on Tattoosday's Tattooed Poets Project!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=1890650706" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.9407541751861572" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday. 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The Tattooed Poets Project: kathryn l. pringle

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