Forearm tattoo of red pomegranates, pale flowers and grey-shaded leaves, shown in three photographed angles.

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Pomegranates and flowers on a forearm

Botanical · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A forearm sleeve of pomegranates, with two whole fruit and one split to show its seeds, alongside pale open flowers, a hanging bell-shaped bloom and dark green leaves on trailing stems. The leaves and flowers are rendered in fine grey linework and soft grey shading, while the fruit carries warm red and orange colour. The three panels show the same arm from front, side and back angles.

Botanical Realism Forearm Flower Leaves Seed Ribbon

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The frost had got into the glasshouse again, so Dad and I spent the first hour of light scraping rime off the inside of the panes with a bread knife, because the scraper had gone missing in October and nobody admitted to losing it. The pomegranates were the last thing my grandfather planted before his hip gave out. Eleven small trees in clay pots, bare as coat hangers now, with fruit still hanging from them like lanterns that had forgotten to go out.

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Those that were left had split on the branch, the way they do when the nights drop below freezing and the juice inside goes to strain. Dad picked one with the skin burst open like a cracked lip and held it up to the window, and the seeds caught the low sun, red as nail varnish and tight in their white pith. Grandad used to say you could count a year's arguments in them, and that you ate them slowly if you wanted to win.

We had sold the pigs in September and the ewes were going at Christmas, so there was nothing left to pay the rates except the trees. Dad had decided, without asking me, that the fruit would go to the market in Ashford in a crate lined with newspaper. I told him nobody buys pomegranates from Kent in January. He said somebody would, from a man with a grey beard who kept his hat on indoors.

We ate the cracked one standing in the cold, spitting pips onto the concrete path. The juice ran down my wrist and into my sleeve, and Dad laughed for the first time since the solicitor's letter came, a short bark that sent the robin off the gutter. He wrapped the rest in newspaper and carried the crate to the van himself. I stayed in the glasshouse a while longer, picking seeds off the path one by one and losing count somewhere past eleven.