Dreamcatcher tattoo on side ribs

Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A side-profile photograph of a woman in a black low-cut dress, with her face hidden by long dark hair. A black and grey dreamcatcher tattoo with a circular hoop, web pattern and hanging feathers sits on her side ribs. The soft, warm lighting and plain pale background keep the focus on the tattoo.

Ribs Dreamcatcher Feather Web Hoop

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Now then, pull that stool closer, because the ovens won't be lit for another hour and the flour gets into everything before the light does. You see that ring of willow above the proving drawer? My mother hung it there the year the mill closed. She said dreams rise out of sleeping heads like steam off a loaf, drifting up through the dark, and most of them float off over the rooftops. But a few catch in the web and stop there, tangled like hair in a comb.

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She taught me to go round at four o'clock with a tea towel and a jar. Nothing fancy. You pick off the loose ones, the ones that flutter, and you let the feathers do the sorting, because the feathers know which dreams are heavy. The grey gull feather that hangs lowest always takes the sad ones and lets them slide down into the bin.

Then one February morning a lad came in off the terraces with his collar turned up and asked for a cob. He had a face like a shut door. I had a dream sitting in the third loop of the web, small and pale and fluttering, with a blue van in it, a van with a dent in the wing and a man singing badly with the window down. I knew it wasn't mine. I wrapped his cob in paper and said, that's yours, love, you left it up there. He looked at me as if I'd sold him stale bread. Then he went out and the bell rang, and when the sun came up over the mill chimney, the web was empty.