Mirror selfie of a woman in a black camisole showing a fine line heart and a green leaf tattoo on her forearm, with a small hanger tattoo on her upper arm.

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Heart and leaf tattoos on forearm and upper arm

Fine line · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A mirror selfie of a person in a black camisole and dark jeans, with the face hidden by a phone. A black linework heart sits on the forearm beside a small green leaf or clover shape, and a small outlined hanger with a tiny mark above it sits on the upper arm. The background is a light bedroom with a white bed and shelves, and the tattoos are small and crisp against the pale skin.

Fine line Forearm Upper arm Heart Leaf Clover Line art

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The hanger had hung from the ash at the edge of Hollin Wood for as long as anyone in Thorne Lea could remember, a plain wire loop bent by weather until it looked like a question mark. Nobody took it down. My gran said the wood had claimed it the winter her own mother hung a wedding dress there to keep the damp off, and that a thing the wood wanted stayed where it was.

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Every spring we made our offering. We cut a heart from red felt, pinned it to the wire, and tucked a sprig of clover into the crook where the hook met the bark. Gran did the pinning. I did the clover, because my fingers were quicker at finding the three-leafed ones in the verge. The wood keeps what we cannot carry, she said, the way she said everything, as if reading out a recipe. I asked what we were giving it. She didn't answer. She only watched the path where my father had walked out two summers before with a suitcase and a promise to write.

The April I turned eleven, I tied my own clover with green thread and hung it higher than Gran could reach. In the morning the felt heart lay in the bracken, and the hanger had been turned so its hook faced the village. Gran stood beneath it with her hand over her mouth, and for once she didn't tell me what it meant.

A letter came two days later, postmarked from the mill town. I read it at the gate with the wire hanger creaking overhead. I kept the clover in my pocket for a month, pressed flat between the pages of a book, until it was the only green thing left in the house.