Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an anatomical heart with flowers and leaves growing from its top, on a forearm.

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Anatomical heart with flowers on a forearm

Dotwork · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A black and grey tattoo of an anatomical heart with vessels at the top, from which stems, leaves and several flower heads grow. The heart is shaded with fine stippled dots and short lines, with the flowers drawn in more open linework. The photograph is greyscale and shows the arm against a blurred background of foliage and dappled light.

Dotwork Botanical Forearm Heart Anatomical heart Flower Leaves Stem Plant

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The customs man at Hollin Pass had seen every kind of thing carried over the border: salt in boot heels, letters sewn into coats, a goat once, which cost him a whole morning. So when Mara Veil set her wooden box on the table and lifted the lid, he expected nothing that would surprise him, and he was wrong.

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Inside, on a bed of wet moss, lay a heart the size of a fist. It had been cut clean, and its great vessels still hung from the top like the roots of a pulled tree. Out of those vessels grew stems. Marigolds opened on them, and a sprig of rue, and something with feathered leaves that dropped a little yellow dust onto the moss. The heart moved, slowly, the way a sleeper's chest moves.

'Declare it,' he said, because that was the rule. 'A heart,' she said. 'My mother's. She planted her own in the yard on the far side, and it came up every summer. When the soldiers burned the yard, I came away with this one, because it was the only part of her still green.' He looked at the forms on his desk, which had no box for this.

He stamped the paper and pushed it back across the table. 'Nothing to declare,' he said. She closed the lid and went down the road. On the far side of the wall, where the track dropped into the valley, the first marigolds were already opening in the ditch, orange as a lamp, and nobody had planted them.