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Mandala with hanging chains on upper back
Geometric · Back · Black and grey · Photo
A symmetrical mandala with layered lotus-like petals sits at the centre of the composition, with leaf motifs along the top edge. Fine dotted and lined shading fills the petals in solid black and grey, with lighter inner details. Strings of small chain links and teardrop pendants hang from the base of the design against the pale skin.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
Sit down, the lot of you, and mind the gravel, it has ears. The gardener's daughter came up the path that morning with her hem soaked from the lily pond and a string of silver chain wound round her wrist, the one her father had asked her to mend before the frost came in.
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He had cut the gate himself, forty petals in layers, each one a morning he had watched the water open before anyone else was up. Along the top ran the leaves, five of them, one for every pair of hands that had ever dug in that soil. Beneath the flower he had hung the chains, small rings linked close as the hours, and at the end of every run a dark teardrop stone, because a garden keeps its losses as well as its roses.
She sat on the wall with the chain across her knees and counted the petals, the way children count stairs in the dark. There were thirty-nine. The fortieth was a gap no bigger than a thumbnail, left bare on purpose, and she understood then what he had been doing all those winters: leaving room. She threaded the last silver ring through the broken link, hung one small stone of her own at the end, and went inside to put the kettle on. Out in the garden, the lotus turned its face to the kitchen window, and the water kept still for once.
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