Black ink tattoo of an interlocking star-shaped flower with curling swirl tendrils on skin, in a geometric style.

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Interlocking star flower with swirls

Geometric · Other · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo shows a five-petalled, star-like flower formed by overlapping black loops, with a central knot where the petals meet. Thin curling tendrils extend outward from the top and sides, and the petals are partly filled in solid black. The ink is black only, set against a plain, lightly lit area of skin with the design centred in the frame.

Geometric Other Flower Star Swirl Loop Knot

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Marguerite, the clematis went over in the night, the whole north fence of it, and I found Father's ladder lying across the bean rows like something dropped by a giant. I have spent the morning picking the knots of wire out of the roses and I cannot tell you how many times I cursed the man who strung them. You always said he had no patience with a thing once it started to climb.

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But listen. Under the bench by the water butt I found the tin with the old star-shaped cutters, the ones he used to press into pastry for us at Christmas. Five points, each one a little loop, and he would twist the dough through the middle so the cut shape came out knotted at its heart. I had forgotten. I sat on the step with the tin in my lap and the sun on my neck and thought how strange it is that a shape can wait so long in a drawer and still know its own way.

I have hung the tin on the nail beside the back door, where you can see it from the kitchen. Come in June when the roses are open and bring the good scissors. We will cut back the wild tendrils together, and I will show you how he tied the last loop so it never slipped. Your loving sister, Hester.