Colourful puzzle piece tree tattoo with a dark shaded trunk and roots, placed on the upper back near the shoulder blade.

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Puzzle piece tree on the upper back

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A tree with a dark, shaded trunk, branches and roots fills the frame, with its canopy made of jigsaw puzzle pieces. The pieces are filled in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, while the trunk and roots use black and grey shading. The tattoo sits on bare skin on the upper back with no background around it.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody in Harrowby Lane could agree on who had left the box on the bench outside the library, but everyone agreed it had been meant for Mrs Okonedo, because she was the only one who ever finished a puzzle. It was a wooden box, the lid split at one corner and held shut with garden twine, and inside were four hundred pieces from six different sets, none of them with the picture side up.

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She sorted them on the kitchen table for a fortnight. Reds went with reds, greens with greens, and the blues she kept apart because they were stubborn and wanted to be somewhere else. When she had finished, she found a single black piece at the bottom that fitted no colour at all, so she laid it on the windowsill and forgot about it.

The following spring the cherry at the back of her yard, which had been dying since the council cut its roots, put out one green shoot. Within two summers it had a trunk as dark as a wet fence post and branches that twisted like a sentence someone had rewritten many times. Where the leaves should have been there were puzzle pieces hung by their knobs and tabs, clicking softly when the wind came off the reservoir.

Her neighbour's boy climbed up one afternoon and came down with a green piece in his fist, insisting it had gone missing from his own set at Christmas. She told him to keep it. By August the canopy had grown a new green piece to replace it, and nobody on Harrowby Lane could say how.