Fine black outline tattoo of a flying dove on the neck behind a person's ear, with a stud piercing in the ear.

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Flying dove outline behind the ear

Fine line · Neck · Black and grey · Photo

A small, single-line outline of a dove in flight sits on the skin behind the ear, with its wings raised and its head facing forward. The linework is thin and even, with no shading, and the ink is black against the skin. The close crop centres the tattoo on the left and shows the ear and a stud piercing on the right, with dark hair at the top of the frame.

Fine line Neck Dove Bird Outline Ear

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mary, the grey hen came back on Tuesday, three days late and half starved, with one wing hanging like a broken umbrella. Dad would have said she had more sense than the rest of the loft put together. I've set her in the box by the range where the coal dust can't reach her, and I've been sitting with her most of the evening, which is daft, I know.

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The east face came down on Monday. Nobody was lost, though Harry Tulley has a cut above his eye that he's showing off, and the manager has been round with his clipboard asking who saw what. I told him I saw nothing but the lamp and the back of Tommy's head. That's the truth, near enough. Down there you learn to keep your eyes on your own hands.

The ring on her leg has the club's number stamped into it, and I thought of you on the platform at Easter, watching the baskets go up the line. You said a bird only comes home if somebody's waiting with the door open. So I've left the loft door open, and the kitchen lamp burning, and I'll be up when the shift bell goes.

When I came in at six there was a grey shape on the sill of the back window, pecking at the frost. She'd flown the last stretch on one wing. I lifted the sash and she walked straight past me to the box as if she'd been paid for the job. Your coat's still on the hook by the door. I haven't moved it. Love, Joe.