Ending April with Sharon Mesmer’s Rose (The Tattooed Poets Project)

I met Sharon Mesmer last July at the NYC Poetry Festival on Governor’s Island. Sharon is a wonderful poet, and she seemed initially surprised that I was interested in the tattoo on her left arm:This rose on the top of her forearm, below her wrist, is an older piece but, as you would imagine, the story behind it is fascinating:”I got my tattoo because I was traveling in Europe and Asia, and wanted a tattoo on each wrist for each continent. I got…