Traditional style tattoo of a green leaf rosette with gold dotted outlines and grey petals, surrounded by large leaves on a forearm.

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Green leaf rosette on forearm

Traditional · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A central rosette-like flower with five or six pointed green leaves sits over a grey and dark purple petal shape, ringed by a gold outline with dotted detailing. Large dark-outlined leaves in green and muted tones spread out on either side and across the lower edge of the arm. Bold black linework defines the forms, with soft shading in the leaves and petals, and the design is centred and symmetrical across the forearm.

Traditional Botanical Forearm Flower Leaves Rosette Mandala

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The road south of Orrin Well ran so straight that a traveller could watch his own dust for a whole morning. Nothing grew beside it but thorn and grey stone, and the people who lived there said the land had forgotten how to flower. A carter called Mireth drove the salt wagons along it every week, and she never once looked at the ground, because looking only made the thirst worse.

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One spring the rain came late, after the wells had gone brackish and the goats had started eating their own bedding. Mireth found a flower at the edge of a dry wash, low and wide, with leaves spread out like the fingers of a hand pressed flat on the sand. At its heart was a green star of five leaves, ringed in gold where the petals ought to be, dotted like the brass studs on a saddle.

She knelt, laid her palm beside it, and did not pick it. Her grandmother had told her that the desert keeps whatever it is given back, so she poured the last cup of her own water into the wash and tied a strip of red cloth to the nearest thorn. The next morning the flower had doubled, and by the week's end the whole wash was a rosette of green and gold running for half a mile.

The carters still drive that road. They say that if you slow the wagon at the place with the red rag, you can smell wet leaves on the wind, even in August, and that nobody has gone thirsty on that stretch since. Mireth's mule, the story goes, refused to walk past the flowers after that, so the flowers are still there, waiting for someone to stop.