She sent along this photo of a clematis flower that was tattooed on her belly in the early '90s in Juneau, Alaska:
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She says she chose the clematis image from "a book of botanical sketches at the Juneau Public Library". Why this one? "Because I love purple flowers -and vines".
The artist, Caroline recalls, was Dave Lang at High Tide Tattoo.
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Caroline Goodwin moved to the San Francisco Bay Area from Sitka, Alaska in 1999 to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. She teaches poetry and nonfiction writing workshops at California College of the Arts and, with Hugh and Mary Behm-Steinberg of Berkeley, is the publisher of MaCaHu poetry chapbook press.
Check out one of Caroline's poems here, over on BillyBlog.
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