Close photograph of a blue flower tattoo with black script reading Ohana on the inner wrist and forearm, in a lettering and botanical style.

Blue flower and Ohana script on a wrist

Lettering · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A blue flower with five soft-edged petals and a yellow centre sits beside the black script word Ohana, which runs across the wrist. The petals use blue shading that fades toward the edges, while the lettering is solid black with a flowing, joined script. The photograph is taken outdoors in daylight against a blurred background of orange and pink fabric, with a shadow crossing the lower part of the image.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The cutting travelled from Honolulu to Bristol wrapped in wet newspaper inside a biscuit tin, and for eleven weeks it did nothing at all. Ruth kept it on the windowsill above the sink, where the morning light came in thin and grey. Every evening she tipped a little water into the tin and read the word on the masking tape label out loud, because her mother had written it there in blue biro: OHANA. Family. Nobody gets left behind.

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Her brother Sione had taken the house, the good spoons and the argument, and they had not spoken since the solicitor's letter. Ruth told herself the plant was a dead thing she was too stubborn to throw out. She stopped reading the label aloud in the second week of the twelfth, mostly because the neighbours had begun to look over the fence.

On the Thursday after that, a single bud split at the joint of the stem, pale at the tips and deepening toward the centre, the colour of the reef water off Waikiki when the cloud is thin. Ruth photographed it on the sill and sent the picture to Sione with no message. Twenty minutes later her phone buzzed. It was a photograph of a jam jar on his own windowsill in Auckland, and in it a bud was just beginning to open. Underneath he had typed one word, spelled right, and it was neither sorry nor goodbye.

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