Black ink crescent moon filled with geometric and swirling patterns on the side of a person's stomach, near the navel.

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Ornate crescent moon on the side of the torso

Geometric · Other · Black and grey · Photo

A crescent moon tattoo sits on the side of the stomach, with its outline and inner panel filled by fine, repeating geometric lattice and triangles. Scrolling tendrils and small dot motifs curl inside the crescent's hollow, giving the design an ornate, mandala-like feel. The tattoo is shown in black ink on smooth skin, and the navel is visible to the right of the design.

Geometric Dotwork Other Crescent moon Moon Geometric pattern Swirl Lattice Triangle Dot Mandala

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The lamp at Scarrow Head had been cracked since the spring gales, so every night I climbed the hundred and twelve steps with a tin of paraffin under one arm and my mother's brass spectacles in my pocket. The lighthouse board had written twice to say the lens would be replaced by autumn. Autumn, the letter said, as though the sea kept calendars.

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The moon that week was a thin paring, the sort that looks cut from tin. I used to sit by the gallery rail and trace it with my eye, the way my grandmother traced lace on her collar, following the little triangles that ran round its edge. She had taught me that a pattern is only a way of keeping your hands busy while your mind goes out to sea. Her lace had scrolls that curled into the hollow of each loop, and I never knew what they were holding.

On the ninth night a boy came up the path from the village with a lantern and a letter from his father, who was on the Marguerite and had not come home. He stood at the foot of the tower and would not climb. I went down to him. Between us we carried the paraffin up, and when I struck the match the new mantle caught and the beam swept out over the water, slow and pale.

Below us the Marguerite's riding light answered from the dark, one spark, then another, bending in toward the rocks. The boy watched it until his lantern burned low. Then he asked whether the moon was holding anything inside its curve, and I told him it was only lace. He nodded as if I had given him the tide times, and went home along the cliff with the lantern held out in front of him like something he meant to keep.