Black and grey realism tattoo of a chopper motorcycle with a large butterfly above it, shown on the forearm.

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Chopper motorcycle and butterfly on a forearm

Realism · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A detailed chopper motorcycle with visible engine, exhaust and spoked wheels fills the lower part of the forearm, with a large butterfly wing and striped body above it at the top right. The work uses smooth, realistic greyscale shading with strong highlights on the chrome and tank, and soft floral shading sits behind the bike. The composition runs diagonally along the arm, with a small red accent near the tank.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The frost had got into the barn overnight, furring the inside of the windows, and the tarp over Uncle Ray's chopper had stiffened like a board. I dragged it off in one piece and the cold came up off the tank in a rush. Ray had been dead since March. Nobody on the farm had said the word sell yet, but the bike sat there in the lamplight as if it was waiting for someone to be rude about it.

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He had built it the summer the swallowtails came through the hedges, the long front fork stretched out in front of him like a dare. One August afternoon a butterfly settled on the hot paint of the tank, wings opening and closing slowly, and Ray refused to shoo it. He sat on an upturned feed bucket for twenty minutes while the bees droned around the barley. He said it was the only time he ever kept still. At Sunday lunch he laughed about it and said the butterfly had the better bargain: a free ride and a fine view of the ditches.

I pushed the choke, turned the key, and got nothing but a click that echoed off the galvanised roof. Dad came to the door with a torch, his breath clouding. Give it a minute, he said, and I did, counting the ewes in the next pen through the slats, until the big V-twin caught and roared and shook dust from the rafters.

For a while nobody moved. The exhaust filled the barn with blue smoke and the lamb bleated, and then Dad stepped up beside me and rested his hand on the bars, the way Ray used to. He'd have hated you letting it idle, he said. Let it run, then. So I did, and we stood in the smoke until it thinned, and the frost on the window seemed to lift like wings.