Black fine line tattoo of a palm tree with coconuts on the outer forearm, its tall curved trunk running down towards the wrist.

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Palm tree on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A single palm tree is drawn in black ink, with a crown of feathery fronds and a cluster of coconuts near the top of the slim, ringed trunk. The trunk curves diagonally down the forearm and ends in a small set of frayed strokes at the bottom. The linework is fine and mostly unshaded, with a light hatched texture on the fronds, and the design sits against pale skin and a dark leather background.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tomasz, the bus from Ilfracombe never came, so I walked the last six miles with your father's old tin of biscuits rattling in my satchel. Mrs Ferreira at the harbour kiosk says the wind off the bay has been wrong all month, blowing from the west when it should blow from the south, and the gulls have been sitting on the slipway with their backs to the sea. I told her I would ask you, since you were always the one who could read a sky.

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The seed you planted in the garden wall has come up at last, a single green spike with a crook at the top. I have been watering it from the rain butt every evening like you said, though I still think it is a fool's errand to expect a palm to thrive in a Devon back yard. Mrs Ferreira laughed when I told her. She said the one on the sea wall at Lynmouth was brought over by a ship's captain in 1911 and nobody ever pulled it up, so I should stop feeling sorry for myself.

I went down to the shingle yesterday and found a coconut washed up under the groyne, brown and split, with a little pale fibre still clinging to one end. I have put it on the windowsill beside the kettle. When the tide turns I am going to carry it down to the cove and let the water take it back the way you asked. Write when the post boat comes in, and tell me the wind has turned.

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