Fine line red lotus flower tattoo with a curling spiral below it, on the ankle.

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Lotus and spiral tattoo on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Colour · Photo

A small fine line tattoo of a lotus flower with layered petals sits above a single curling spiral. The linework is thin and even, and the ink is a uniform reddish tone against pale skin. The design is centred on the ankle with plenty of empty skin around it.

Fine line Botanical Ankle Lotus Flower Spiral

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

You break the ice on the cattle trough with the back of the hoe, the way your father taught you, and the water underneath is black and still. Nothing grows in January except the things you have been told not to touch. Your sister's seed packet from the autumn sale sits unopened on the windowsill, the one with the pond lily on the front, and you have decided it is a kind of joke.

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The lane to the lower field floods every winter, and the frost comes off the hedges in fine white lace. Yesterday the wind curled a dead bramble into a coil at your boots, a spiral so exact you crouched to look at it. You thought of the pond bed, of the bulb that must be down there in the silt, folded tight around its one green promise. Nobody on this farm believes in things that wait that long.

So you wade out past the willows with the spade and the seed tin, and the ice cracks under your weight like a dropped plate. You kneel at the margin, press the tin into the mud, and tell the water what you want in the flat voice Mam used for the hens. Then you wait, which you have always been bad at.

In March the ice goes all at once, grey sheets knocking together under the footbridge. By May there is a single pink bloom standing on the surface, its petals stacked in layers like the folds of a wet sleeve, and you stand on the bank with mud to your knees and laugh until the heron lifts off the reeds.