Black and grey cherry blossom tattoo with leaves and branches wrapping around the outer thigh of a seated person on a purple rug.

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Cherry blossom thigh tattoo in grey

Botanical · Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

A person kneels on a purple rug, showing a tattoo of cherry blossoms with branches and leaves running down the outer thigh and onto the knee. The flowers are shaded in soft greys with dark stamens and fine branch linework, giving a soft, layered look. The composition is a diagonal sweep from the upper thigh to the knee, with the blossoms clustered towards the front of the leg.

Botanical Thigh Cherry blossom Flower Leaves Branch Stamen Floral

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The lane gave up being a lane at the third stile, and from there Mother's directions were all I had. Follow the beck until the alders lean, keep the wood on your left, then trust your nose. I smelled the cherry before I saw it, a sweetness sitting under the damp like a coin under the tongue. The old wild tree stood alone past the last fence, and in the grey light before rain its blossom looked less pink than pencilled in.

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Nobody in Haldon Cross picked from it. The vicar said the petals were for the dead and the children said they were for wishes, and nobody wanted to be the one who took too many. I had come for a single branch for Grandfather's wake. He had planted its twin in the churchyard sixty years before and once told me he wanted to be buried under something that knew how to be temporary. I climbed the lowest limb with my boots slipping on lichen, and a twig snapped under my coat with a sound like a knuckle.

Halfway up, the stamens had gone dark at their tips, like the ink on a drawing when the nib runs dry, and petals were already loosening into the air. I stopped being careful. I cut three branches, leaves and all, and dropped them into my hat. When I climbed down a man stood at the stile with a dog and a lantern, though it was not yet dusk. 'Not the one by the wall, love,' he said. 'That's the one that remembers.' I laughed, then didn't.

At the wake I laid the branches on the lid. The light through the chapel windows was the colour of weak tea, and the blossom turned grey in it just as it had on the hill. Afterwards I pressed one flower into Grandfather's atlas between Norway and the Baltic. A week later, when I opened the book, it had left a faint shadow on the paper, five petals and a dark crown of threads, as if the tree had come indoors to see him off.