Black ink drawing of a dreamcatcher with a siren emblem in its hoop, feathers hanging below and a flock of birds flying away, on a plain cream background.

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Dreamcatcher with feathers and birds in black ink

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The drawing shows a dreamcatcher with a circular hoop enclosing a siren emblem, a crowned figure with flowing hair, and a ring of cross and loop motifs. Five feathers hang from the base of the hoop and trail down and to the right, with a flock of bird silhouettes flying away from their tips. The work is done in solid black ink with hatched shading on the feathers, set against a cream paper background with no colour.

Dreamcatcher Feather Bird Crosses Hoop Flock

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The starlings came off the Bramley rows at dusk, the way they had every August since Dad's hands went stiff, and Mum stood in the packing shed doorway with a tea towel over one shoulder, counting them out loud as if they were late for a bus. I held the ladder steady while she reached for the hoop I had strung in the top branch that morning.

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It was a willow ring bound with green twine, and she had wound a crown of bent wire through the middle, with a lady's face pressed into the centre from a tin lid she had flattened on the kitchen step. 'Your gran made these to catch bad dreams,' she said. 'Mostly she caught wasps.' Five turkey feathers hung from the base, grey at the tips, and the wind off the Medway pulled them sideways like washing on a bad day.

The letter from the developer was still propped against the sugar tin in the kitchen. Forty years of trees, and a man in a good coat wanted the land for houses with names instead of numbers. I had said nothing about it all week. Mum had said nothing either, which was how I knew she had already made up her mind.

The birds lifted all at once, the way starlings do, and went over the hedge in a ragged black ribbon that seemed to unspool from the feather tips and drag the evening after it. Mum tied off the last knot, looked up at the empty hoop turning slowly above us, and said we would keep one tree. Just the one. The rest could go where the birds were going.