The Bunny Tattoo

poetry
Written By Jay Rafferty

There’s a rabbit in her skin. Rabid.

Lapin. Lap out. Taste her here.

Her hare. Her hair blazing. Straight,

curled or banged. Always blazing.

Exploding from her head. A firestorm.

High above its burrow. Her bunny.

Her bunny on her bottom. In her skin.

A wild thing. No playboy tie. No Thumper

pedalling from a nose nuzzle. It winks.

An Coinin. Come on in cunning linguist. 

Cunicularium. Cunnilingus. Eat her

rabid. Eat her rabbit. Lap out. Lapin.

The rabbit in her skin in

my mouth. Haunches and all.

Jay Rafferty

Jay Rafferty is a redhead, an uncle, an Irishman and an eejit. He is a guest lecturer on Irish Literature and poetry as well as the author of three poetry chapbooks. He was awarded a professional membership to the Irish Writer’s Centre by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 2024. You can read his work in several journals including Arcana Poetry Press, Broken Spine Arts, FU Review Berlin and New Word Order.

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