Black and grey sketch-style tattoo of a bearded man in a flat cap with three crows, on the calf.

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Man in a flat cap with crows

Calf · Black and grey · Photo

A profile portrait of a bearded man wearing a flat cap is drawn in bold, loose black linework, with three crows or birds scattered around his head. The ink is solid black with no shading or grey tones, and the sketchy outlines give it a hand-drawn feel. The design sits on a pale, hairy calf against a plain light background, with the figure filling the centre of the frame.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tom, the rooks have taken the east tower again, so I've stopped fighting them and started counting them instead. Forty-one this morning, sat along the broken curtain wall like clerks waiting for the bell. Mrs Dunning from the farm says it's bad luck to let them roost on a dead place, but she said the same about the cider, and she drinks that.

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Your cap is still on the hook by the gate lodge. I haven't moved it. The lads from the village come up on Sundays with their dogs and a bottle, and they ask me who the old lord was, and I tell them what you told me: a man who built a wall so thick he forgot to put a window in it. Then I light my pipe, which you always said I'd do in the wrong place, and watch the birds drop down onto the mortar as if they're reading something off it.

Yesterday a rook flew off with the tin of tobacco you left on the sill. I chased it halfway to the chapel, shouting like a fool. It dropped the tin on the lichen, the lid came off, and I stood there in the wind thinking that's the first thing taken from this place in a hundred years that I didn't mind losing.

Come up at Easter. Bring the good cap, the one with the torn peak. The crows will know it's you before you reach the gate and make such a racket I won't need to ring the bell. Your brother, Walt.