Black silhouette tattoo of a fairy holding a dandelion clock on the upper back, with birds and seeds drifting up towards the neck.

Fairy with dandelion clock and birds on upper back

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A black silhouette of a fairy sits on the lower left, holding a dandelion clock with a long stem. Seeds and small birds trail upwards in a curve across the upper back towards the neck, with some seeds drawn as fine outlines. The ink is solid black on a light skin tone, and the composition is a close photograph of the back with no other objects visible.

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Dear Marnie, the lift at Harrow Court has been out since Tuesday, so I have been taking the stairs up to the fourteenth floor with the shopping and a bad hip, and I have stopped minding it. You would laugh. Every landing has a window, and every window has a dandelion pushing up through the cracks in the concrete outside, gone to clocks already in April, which is too early by my reckoning. Mrs Okafor on nine says the council sprayed the verges, but nobody told the weeds.

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Yesterday I found one on my balcony rail, a single clock on a long stem, bent over as if it had been carried a long way and set down to rest. I stood there in my slippers for ten minutes working out whether to pick it up. Dad used to say blow on a clock and make a wish, and then you had to let the seeds go, because the wish only counts if you can't take it back. I didn't blow. I just watched the wind take the seeds one by one over the car park, towards the bus shelter, the canal, the roofs of the far estate, and a pair of starlings went up after them as though they were keeping count.

I've enclosed a pressed one. It will be flat as a biscuit by the time this reaches you. Write back and tell me which of your wishes you've let go of, and I'll tell you mine. Don't say the job. I know about the job. Love, Jean

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