Feather, birds and script quote design
Lettering · Black and grey · Flash
A black feather silhouette with fine interior detailing sits on the left, with a flock of small birds in flight rising from its tip towards the upper right. The words Your Wings Were Ready But My Heart Was Not are set in large flowing script across the lower half. The design is printed in solid black on a pale grey, feathery background with no shading or colour.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
It's gone one in the morning and the city has finally stopped its shouting. I'm writing this at the kitchen table with the radio off, because the house has been too quiet since the van pulled away on Saturday. Your dad would have said I was being soft. He'd have stood at the gate with his hands in his pockets, pretending the tractor on the road needed watching.
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I found a feather on the back step this afternoon, grey and ragged at one edge, the kind the pigeons drop by the bins on Clarke Street. I nearly swept it away. Then I thought of the kestrel chick you found in the lane, the one you fed with a pipette for a fortnight, and how you cried when it finally went up over the chapel roof without looking back. I stood there with the brush in my hand and told myself that is what good parents are for.
So here is the thing I didn't say at the station. Your wings were ready. They always were, from the time you were four and jumped off the garden wall to see what would happen. I just needed a minute longer with my own heart before it caught up.
Ring me Sunday. Eat something green. The feather is in the envelope.
Love, Mum
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