The Wolf is Bigger and Stronger than You Are

When she sleeps, the woman’s tattoos come to life and chase each other around her body–the coyote, the school of fish, the Asian woman, the frowning Venus Flytrap, the pirate ship with torn sail, the fighting octopodes, the moth, the letters in appetentia. Sometimes they rearrange themselves just to see if she’ll notice: the moth, before on her shoulder blade now on her torso; the octopodes, once an aggressive tangle now friends embracing. But she hasn’t looked at her body in years, so she’ll never notice.