Black linework drawing of a fox head wreathed in flowers and leaves, shown as a botanical tattoo design on a white print against a wooden background.

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Fox with flower crown design

Botanical · Black and grey · Flash

A black ink line drawing of a fox's head and shoulders, turned slightly to one side, with five-petalled flowers and leaves forming a crown over its ears and a cluster beneath its chin. The fur is built up with fine hatched and stippled lines, with no colour or solid fills. The drawing sits centred on a white rectangle photographed on a pale wooden plank background.

Botanical Fox Flower Leaves Animal portrait

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The fox came down the quay at Newlyn the week the pilchards failed, sitting on the gunwale of my uncle's boat as if it had paid the mooring fee. Nobody saw it swim out or climb the harbour wall. Wild roses were tangled over its ears, the petals open and white as the paper in the fish-market ledger, and leaves crowded at its throat like it had been dressed for a wedding nobody had invited it to.

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Uncle Joss swore at it, then tossed it a herring. "Not on my deck," he said, and then, quieter, "Go on, then. Show me where they are." The fox trotted to the bow, sat down on the wet planks, and lifted its nose into the wind off the Runnel Stone. We went out on its word with the lamps still lit and the tide running hard against us.

We shot the net where it sat, and the water came up dark and close, the way the shading on its coat goes thick where the shadow is deepest and thins out over the pale. The net came aboard so heavy the block groaned. Jack the cook shouted until he cracked his voice. The fox only watched, flowers unwilting in the spray, as if this were no more than it had expected.

At first light the thwart was empty. Only one bramble flower lay on the boards, five petals and a dash of salt. Joss pinned it inside the wheelhouse, where it stayed until the paint went yellow. Every spring after, when the catch ran thin, he laid a fresh flower on the bow and said nothing about it. The fox never came back, but the nets always found something.