Black and grey photo of a solid black silhouette of a cat tattooed on the neck behind the ear, in a blackwork style.

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Black cat silhouette tattoo behind the ear

Blackwork · Neck · Black and grey · Photo

A solid black silhouette of a cat, with its tail curled and its head turned upward, is tattooed on the side of the neck just behind the ear. The design uses bold, filled shapes with no interior linework or shading. The photograph is black and white and shows only the ear, a couple of ear piercings and part of the neck and hair.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Brother Tullus, the black cat came back again this morning and sat on the granary wall as though she had paid the rent. You told me to stop feeding her, but you were not here when the rain split the grain sacks and she guarded every one of them through the night. Mother says a cat that black belongs to the dead, so she wraps the milk jug in a cloth each evening to keep the spirits out of it. I think the cat is simply lazy about the moon.

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Last week the steward Cleon wanted her drowned in the cistern. I stood between them with the ledger under my arm and told him the cat had counted the mice more honestly than his tally sticks ever had. He laughed and let her be, but he made me copy the figures twice. Tonight I sat on the step with the lamp and watched her tail curl round her feet while she lifted her head towards the swallows, as if she had taught them to fly and was waiting to see if they remembered.

When you come home at harvest, bring the good ink from Alexandria, the kind that does not run in damp. I want to draw her properly on the back of this letter before she goes, though I doubt she will hold still for it. Tell Father the grain is counted. Tell him the cat is counted too, under the heading of lesser debts, where she will sit for ever looking up at something none of us can see.

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