Black line geometric tattoo of a bird with spread wings merging into a scorpion tail, with faceted shards, across a man's chest.

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Geometric bird and scorpion on chest

Geometric · Chest · Black and grey · Photo

A large black outline tattoo shows a bird with spread wings and a crested head that transforms into a scorpion tail with a raised stinger. The body is built from angular, faceted panels and fine single-weight linework, with small loose diamond shapes scattered around the figure as if breaking away. The design is in black ink only and fills the upper chest, with the skin tone and soft lighting providing a neutral backdrop.

Geometric Chest Bird Phoenix Scorpion Geometric shape Wing Tail

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The storm had taken eleven panes from the east window of St Clement's before anyone thought to count them. Dinah Pryce, who had mended that glass since her father's knees gave out, laid the surviving pieces across a trestle in the vestry and tried to read them like a cipher. Most were plain blue or gold. One had a wing, black lead running through it like a drawn line.

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The old window had shown a firebird rising out of a bed of scorpions, though the parish leaflet called them dragons. The lead was cut into facets, each shard bordered by a single dark line, so the whole thing looked folded from paper rather than painted. Dinah wrapped every piece in tissue and kept the wing glass apart from the tail, because the tail carried a sting of red that her father had always called the hardest cut he ever made.

On the Friday a boy from the farm on Cider Lane came in with a shard he had found in the orchard grass, two hundred yards from the churchyard wall. It was the diamond from the bird's throat, still bright, the lead bent but whole. He said he had been hunting for conkers and found the glass instead, lying among the windfalls as if something had flown over and dropped it.

She fitted it back into the gap at the bird's neck and pressed the lead flat with her thumb. The window was whole again except for one dark hole at the tail, where the sting should have been. She left it empty, took her coat from the hook, and walked out through the long grass to look for the rest.