Black ink drawing of a circular badge design with the words ALL GOOD THINGS ARE WILD AND FREE around a solid black pine tree silhouette, on white paper.

Pine forest badge with 'All good things are wild and free'

Blackwork · Black and grey · Flash

A circular design with the words ALL GOOD THINGS ARE WILD AND FREE arranged in an arc across the top. Below them, a row of solid black pine tree shapes fills the lower half of the circle, with fine white lines separating the trees. The drawing is in black ink on plain white paper, with a twine, a pen and a brush pen placed around the edges.

Blackwork Pine tree Forest Quote Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The ovens on Kirkgate lit at half two, and by four I had flour to the elbows and nobody in the shop to tell me to stop singing. My father left me a beer mat in the glovebox of his van when he went into the care home in Dumfries. On it, in biro gone soft from handling, he'd drawn a ring of words round a row of pines: ALL GOOD THINGS ARE WILD AND FREE, the letters squashed where the mat curved.

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Nobody in Leeds believed the forest existed. The bins behind the shop were full of pigeons, and the only trees were the clipped lollipops on the ring road, trimmed by men in hi-vis. I used to tell him so on the phone, and he'd say the city was only a forest that hadn't found its roots yet. I'd laugh, because it was exactly the sort of thing he said.

Last Tuesday the night manager, Pauline, found me at the back with the mat flattened under a bread tin, copying the pines onto the wall of the proving room with a fine liner, one tree a night. She said the customers would take it for a sign. I told her it was a map. She didn't ask where to.

When the first trays went out at six, I stood by the back window and watched the sky over the car park go the colour of wet slate. For a minute the dark gap behind the bus shelters looked exactly like the edge of the trees.