Close to the skin
The bleeding ink
And fading edge
Of memories
And old tattoos
Mementoes of regret
The raised bed
Retrospective
Of scarred tissue
The lines we traced
The tourniquet
Embrace
Scrape
This skin of moss
Reveal the polished stones
Weathered in
Our masochistic grip
As we forever
Stack in cairns
Rememberings
To cover up the holes
Pine boughs
By the wayside
You will forget
Soft needles
The scent
Of the verdant
An opening
Opening
Off in the distance
Written in collaboration with Kathryn Ross
By Reka Jellema and Kathryn Ross
August 2014