Neo-traditional colour tattoo of pink peonies and green leaves across a hip and buttock, shown in two side-by-side photographs.

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Pink peony tattoo across hip and buttock

Neo-trad · Other · Colour · Photo

Two photographs show large pink peony blooms with yellow centres and green leaves covering the hip and upper buttock, with black underwear visible at the waistband. The flowers have bold dark outlines and soft pink shading, with a smaller red bloom tucked behind the larger ones. The left panel shows the hip side-on and the right panel shows the curve of the buttock from behind, with a plain white background.

Neo-trad Botanical Other Peony Flower Leaves Bloom

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The peony came over the hill in a biscuit tin in the spring the last shift came out of Harwood Pit, and Ada Pryce carried it up the lane under her coat so the frost wouldn't get at the root. Her father had dug it from a garden in Barnsley forty years before, a clump of dark red stems that never once flowered in the black dust of the village. She put it in the strip of ground behind the chapel wall, where the slag had been turned over and sweetened with ash and old tea leaves.

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Half the street was packing. Vans idled outside the Co-op with mattresses roped to their roofs, and boys who had gone down at fourteen were learning to drive for lorry firms in Leeds. Ada's brother Dennis stood at the gate with his bag already in the cab of a borrowed Bedford. "You'll not stay for a shrub," he said. She didn't answer. She was watching a bud split along its seam, a fist of pink silk pushing out into the cold.

By June the flowers were the size of saucers, heavy and ruffled, pink at the edges and gold at the heart, and they hung over the wall so anyone coming up the bus road could see them. Dennis wrote from Leeds every second Sunday. The letters were short and smudged with diesel. Ada read them at the gate and then went out to deadhead the blooms, because she had decided the thing was worth keeping for whoever came next.

On the last evening of the month she cut one bloom, wrapped its stem in a wet dishcloth, and left it on the bus shelter bench with a note for the driver: for whoever is going south. Then she went back to the wall, where the other flowers were already letting their petals fall onto the spoil, one by one, in no hurry at all.