In the mean time, Meredith Sugarman, a poet from Brooklyn, sent in the following photo:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsJs_p8G1YuqS1BcBHUCFIPUTaJGNShfMou4P9omRWkhW6vZoHzZ-Jy6wi1zGldzvCz0V4MEn-gETse0F9GDuZri1_7T2TcdY1lpIh4FnN4ayScH086YSO9ugUIoUZ0krggJFOgPYdBmY/s400/Photo+54.jpg)
I know, I know, you can't see the whole piece in that shot, but it's pretty cool, and you can get some detail on the sparrow. Here's a more traditional shot:
Meredith explains:
"I happen to love tattoos as a intimately personal expression of ourselves...[This] ... is an interpretation of a Russian prison tattoo that families and lovers got when they were separated by prisons and Stalin's concentration camps. The tattoo is a traditional pair of swallows holding a three-piece banner with the Russian acronyms: tomsk (a city in Russia); vino (wine); omyt (whirlpool). The acronyms stand for: you alone have my heart; come back and stay forever; it is hard to leave me.
Alex McWatt at Three Kings Tattoo did an amazing job at putting all the elements together. I decided to get this tattoo after losing most of my family members, but mainly after my mother, who is a drug addict, disappeared from my life 5 years ago."
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