Colour tattoo of a green retro rocket ship with a red stripe above a black spiral vortex on the calf.

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Green rocket above a black spiral on a calf

Neo-trad · Calf · Mixed · Photo

A green rocket with a red stripe, rivets and silver exhaust flames sits above a black spiral that appears to recede into the skin. The rocket has bold dark outlines and flat, cartoon-like shading, while the spiral uses solid black bands that create depth. The leg is photographed against grey paving, with a blue shoe visible at the bottom of the frame.

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Tom, the rivets are all in now, forty-two of them, and I counted twice because you always said forty-one and I wanted to prove you wrong for once. The red stripe went on yesterday with the last of the pillar-box paint from Mr Pryce's shed, so the whole thing looks like a bus that has decided to be brave. Mother has not seen it. I have told her it is a water tank for the sheep.

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The spiral in the quarry hasn't changed. Snow sits on the rim of it every morning and by noon it has all gone down into the black, quietly, like someone pouring tea into a saucer they do not intend to drink from. I dropped a tin of sardines in on Tuesday and I did not hear it land. You can say that is a reason to stay home. I think it is the reason to go.

Here is what I need from you. Bring the paraffin up on the Thursday cart and do not let the carter talk you into a second sack. Bring the flask with the dent in it, and stand on the far ridge when I go, so I know someone is watching the flames come out of the bottom of the cone and not the top, because I am fairly sure they will.

If it works, I will write from the other side. If it does not, the sardines will have company, and you can tell Mother it was the sheep tank.

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