Black and grey fine line feather tattoo with a small quill base and curl on the ankle.

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Feather tattoo on the ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A small feather with a curled quill base is tattooed on the outer ankle of a leg, with a flip flop visible at the bottom of the frame. The feather is drawn with fine outlines and soft grey shading along its barbs, with darker tones at the tip. The plain pale skin and blurred grey floor keep the focus on the tattoo.

Fine line Ankle Feather Quill Scroll

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mabel Ruddock had kept the walled garden at Hollin Mill for forty years, and in all that time she had never once written a letter, though the parson's boy thought her a great reader. The jay came to her wall each morning in the month the medlars split, and she fed him crumbs from her apron pocket. When he moulted, she found his feathers in the lavender and laid them on the sill, because her husband had told her a feather was only a pen that had not yet been asked to work.

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Her husband had gone across the sea on the lime barge and had not come back. Each autumn she wrote to him in her head, and each spring the words went stale. One April she took a grey-brown feather from the sill, trimmed its quill with the kitchen knife, and dipped it in the walnut ink she used for labels on the jam jars. The first line came out crooked. The second was steadier. By the third she had set down the whole of the winter: the frost on the cabbages, the boy who had grown taller than the gatepost, the dark tip of the bean row where the slugs had got in.

She folded the letter small and tucked it into the hollow of the old sundial, weighted with a sprig of rosemary. The jay took it, as jays will, and nobody in Hollin ever learned which way he flew. The following spring a letter came back to the sill, written on the reverse of a bill of lading in a hand she knew. It said only: the feather reached me, the garden is still there, come home when the medlars split again.