Fine line black tattoo of a daffodil with an unopened bud and long narrow leaves on the upper arm.

Daffodil fine line tattoo on upper arm

Fine line · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A single daffodil in bloom is drawn in delicate black linework, shown alongside an unopened bud and long, narrow leaves. The lines are fine and even, with light hatching on the petals and leaves, and the design uses black ink only. It sits on the upper arm against a plain white sleeve and background.

Fine line Botanical Upper arm Daffodil Flower Bud Leaves Stem

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The man in the blue anorak had declared a tea towel, two jam jars and a paper bag of compost, which is how I knew he was lying. Nobody carries soil through a crossing for pleasure. I tipped the bag onto my steel tray and found a dozen bulbs packed in the damp, papery and stubborn, their roots curled like wire.

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Plant health rules are not sentimental. Bulbs carry pests nobody has bothered to name yet, and the form has a box for exactly that. I reached for the orange sticker and he said, quite calmly, that they had come off the slope behind his mother's house in Normandy, and that the house was sold on Friday, and that the van had no room for anything it could not hold on its lap. He said the flowers came up yellow in March, before anything else in the valley. I asked him whether he had cut them for her. He said she never let anyone cut them, only looked.

I could have ticked destroyed on site and watched him drive off with his jars. Instead I put the bulbs in a clean carrier bag, wrote his name on the form with the box marked returned to sender, and told him to take them home by the back road and keep them out of his boot.

In February I drove past the lay-by where the lorries wait for their paperwork. By the chain-link fence someone had dug a shallow trench in the frost and left it open, neat as a grave. I did not stop. I know what the form said. It said destroyed. It did not say where.