Black botanical floral vine tattoo running down a person's upper back, with a hand holding an applicator at the lower left.

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Black floral vine on upper back

Botanical · Back · Black and grey · Photo

A vertical vine of black flowers and curling stems runs down the upper back, from near the neck towards the shoulder blade. The motifs are filled in solid black with small dotted details around the leaves and stems. The background is pale and blurred, and a hand holding a fine nozzle applicator appears at the lower left.

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Maud mixed the dark paste before the mist lifted off the cut, working it in the galley tin until it ran like cold tar through the fine nozzle. Her grandmother had said a vine drawn at first light would hold until the moon turned, and a vine drawn for someone leaving would find its own road home. Nobody on the Bessie Ann believed that, but nobody on the Bessie Ann had ever stood at Kelham Lock with a son bound for the war.

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She had him sit on the coal hatch with his back to the water. She began near the collar of his shirt and drew a stem downward in one unbroken line, the way her mother had taught her, filling each flower solid so it would not fade to grey. Between the blooms she pressed small dots for leaves and for the rain that had come up the Trent that spring. The boy did not turn round. He only asked whether the vine would reach the far bank.

"It reaches wherever you keep walking," she said, and blew on the last leaf until it was dry.

He went down the towpath with the carrier's cart, and she kept the tin on the shelf above the stove. In August a letter came from a field hospital in France, folded small and smelling of carbolic. It said only that he had seen a stream running the wrong way through a meadow, and that it had made him think of the bargeman's cut, and that he was coming home by the first boat that would take him.

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