Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos » Tulips http://www.contrariwise.org Tattoos from books, poetry, music, and other sources. Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:57:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tulips http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/05/21/tulips/ http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/05/21/tulips/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 16:00:34 +0000 Jen http://www.contrariwise.org/?p=744 This tattoo belongs to Dese’Rae Stage (see her other tattoo), and was done by Ryan Falcon at Almost Famous Tattoo in Miami, FL.

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3 lines from the poem “Tulips” by Sylvia Plath:

And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.

I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.

And I have no face, I have wanted to efface myself.

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