Fine line black pineapple tattoo on the calf, with a thin ankle chain and white sneakers on stone steps.

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Pineapple tattoo on a lower leg

Fine line · Calf · Black and grey · Photo

A single pineapple is drawn in thin black linework on the back of a lower leg, with the fruit's crown extending upward and the body filled with a light crosshatch pattern. The shading is soft and greyish, with no colour ink visible. The leg is shown from behind against a grey stone step, with a thin ankle chain and white sneakers in the lower frame.

Fine line Calf Pineapple Fruit

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody in Hartley Row had seen a pineapple outside a tin, so when Mr Pollard lifted it onto the counter like a bishop's mitre, the queue stopped mid-gossip and everyone looked at the spiked crown as if it might climb down and go to chapel. He wanted two shillings. My mother said he could keep his fruit, and then the Dawson women began counting coppers into their aprons, and by six o'clock it was ours, wrapped in yesterday's paper and carried home between us like a dead bird.

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My father came off the back shift at the Hartley seam with coal in every crease of him and sat at the table with his cap still on. He had never tasted one, he said, only heard the men who had been to Canada talk of them. He wanted it cut in the yard so the whole row could smell it. Mother sliced the golden flesh into twelve pieces with the bread knife, and the juice ran into the cracks of the oilcloth, sweeter than anything I had known in that smoky street.

The crown was left over. Nobody wanted the tough green top, so I pulled it free, stripped the lower leaves and stood it in a jam jar of water on the sill above the sink, where the glass was gritty from the winding gear. Nobody believed it would take. Every morning I checked the water, and every morning the cut end looked more like a root.

By March the crown had put out pale roots as thin as cotton, and the leaves were dark and stiff as a holly sprig. My father stood at the sink with his tea, looked at it a long time, and said a thing could grow in the muck if somebody bothered to give it water. Then he went out to the shift, and I watched the pit wheel turn over the slag heaps while the little green thing kept drinking.