Black and grey fine line tattoo of a flock of small birds in flight running down the inner forearm.

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Flock of birds down a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo shows a flock of around seven small birds in flight, arranged in a diagonal line from near the wrist towards the elbow, with a tiny bird at the top. The birds are drawn with light, fine outlines and soft grey shading on their wings. The photo is taken against a dark background with warm lighting, so the skin tone is slightly orange and the tattoo is clearly visible.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, love, the kettle's only just gone. You'll not get the ward round before three anyway. Did I ever tell you about the geese over the Mere road? No? Well, there were seven of them the winter my Bert was on the ninth floor, and every night at half eleven they came over the car park in a line, like someone had dragged a pencil slantwise across the sky.

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They always kept the same slope, lead bird out front, the others stepping down behind him like the stairs in our close. Nurse Halloran swore they were pigeons. She was wrong, and she was wrong about most things that spring, but I never argued with her after dark. You don't argue at night. Night's when the sums come out honest.

Bert went on the Thursday. Quiet, as if he'd only been waiting for the clock to say the right number. I went down to the car park to be sick, and there was one bird left over the ambulance bay, a little one, trailing the others by a field's width, circling and circling like it had lost its place in a sentence.

I stood there till my tea went cold. Then it caught up, straight over the roof, and I watched it go after the rest until I couldn't tell it from a star. Put the kettle on again, love. That's the last of my stories for tonight.

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