Back view of a man in a black cat print T-shirt, showing a colourful botanical sleeve tattoo on his forearm and upper arm.

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Botanical sleeve on a man in a cat print tee

Botanical · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A man is photographed from behind, wearing a black T-shirt with a large printed cat face and a pentagram, which is clothing rather than tattoo work. His left arm carries a sleeve of leaves and flowers in shaded linework, with red and green tones alongside grey shading. His right arm shows darker tattoo work including diamond and geometric shapes, against a plain pale background.

Botanical Forearm Upper arm Flower Leaves Sleeve Diamond Geometric shape

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Every spring the bindweed came back up through the cracks in platform two, and every spring Mrs Eliza Trant went out with a trowel and pulled it out by the roots. The stationmaster at Hollin Cross said it was no good. The line belonged to a company in London that did not care what grew on a platform so long as the trains ran on time, and the trains ran on time, mostly.

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One March the bindweed came up pale green in the night, and by morning it had wound round the signal post and hung small white bells along the fence. Eliza did not pull it. She sat on the bench with her tea going cold and watched the 7.14 slow down for nothing, because the driver had seen the flowers and wanted a closer look.

The old people in the village said a station is a place where folk wait for something that will not come back the way it left. Eliza's father had waited on platform two for a husband who sent letters from the mill towns and then stopped sending them. Eliza waited for nothing in particular, and that, she decided, was the trouble with her.

By June the vine had reached the rails and split the sleepers apart. A guard came to complain and stayed to pick the blackberries that had come with it. Nobody cut the plant back after that, and when the timetable was reprinted the clerk added a small note in the margin that read: stop here if asked.