Small black fine line tattoo of a fern frond inside a thin circle on the inner forearm, shown in black and white.

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Fern inside a circle on the inner forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A small fern frond sits inside a thin black outline circle on the inner forearm, with the hand open and relaxed at the lower right of the frame. The linework is fine and single-weight, with the fern drawn in delicate detail and light shading along its leaflets. The photograph is black and white with a soft grey background, so the tattoo is the clear focal point.

Fine line Botanical Forearm Fern Circle Leaf Plant

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The wheel has stopped for the third time tonight, and the generator man is shouting across the field at you. You are on your knees in the mud behind the Waltzer, where the grass has never been cut, because the fern growing there is the only thing on the whole site that did not come with a ticket. Your mother used to say ferns were the oldest plants still bothering to be green. You pull one frond free and the root comes with it, pale as a bootlace.

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You carry it back to the caravan in a jam jar and set it on the windowsill beside the brass ring-toss prizes. Mr Ansell, who runs the coconut shy, knocks at closing with a tot of whisky and a question about buying the Dodgems. You tell him no. The fern goes into a round tin that once held boiled sweets, and you punch a few holes in the lid so the air can reach it.

All through August the fair moves from Bristol to Bath to a village with one pub and a church that rings its bell for nobody. At every stop you unscrew the lid and look. The frond opens a little more each time, leaflet by leaflet, as though it is counting the towns.

In Frome, on a grey morning, you find the first new curl pushing up through the soil, tight as a clenched fist. You stand in the empty car park with the lid in your hand while the ride men shout for the lorries, and for once you do not hurry to answer them.