Black line drawing of the words GET AWAY FROM ME, with each letter set on a thin stem with small leaves, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.

Get away from me lettering on stems

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

The image shows a line drawing of the phrase GET AWAY FROM ME, with each word's letters growing from thin stems that have small leaves. The letters are outlined in fine black linework with simple lettering, and the stems are drawn with delicate, single lines. It is a monochrome design on a plain white background with no body part visible.

Lettering Botanical Fine line Lettering Text Stem Leaves Plant

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mrs Pargeter had ordered the seed mix from a catalogue because the picture showed cornflowers, and in thirty years of gardening she had never once been disappointed by cornflowers. The packet arrived with a note in green biro: Sow in a line, thin as you like, and water on Sundays only.

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Her nephew Dennis came round on the Saturday to help with the bed by the shed, and he laughed so hard he had to sit on the water butt. By the second week the seedlings had come up in neat rows, each one a slender stem with two small leaves, and at the tip of every stem a single letter had unfurled, pale and crisp, like a bud deciding what it wanted to be. The first word was G, then E, then T. Then a gap where the sun fell on the wall, then A, W, A, Y.

Dennis wanted to pull them up. Mrs Pargeter wouldn't let him. "They're polite enough," she said. "They're only telling the slugs where to go." She watered them on Sundays only, as instructed, and kept a list on the back of an envelope of which neighbours had been standing too close to the fence.

By August the whole bed read GET AWAY FROM ME, and the postman stopped at the gate, read it twice, and asked whether she'd like him to take a cutting down to the church for the harvest festival. She said no. Some words, she told him, you grow because you mean them.