Realism tattoo on a forearm showing a woman's face with a blood-spattered eye and red lips, above a clock face with Roman numerals and hands at the wrist.

Realistic woman's face and clock on a forearm

Realism · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A realistic portrait of a woman's face covers the upper forearm, with one eye and parted red lips visible and dark red splatter running down the cheek. Below the face, white shapes sit beside the neck, and a clock face with Roman numerals and hands wraps around the wrist. The shading is smooth and detailed in greys and blacks, with red used for the blood and lips.

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Dear Walter, the clock in the front room stopped again on Tuesday at ten past four, the minute the whistle went. I have not wound it since. Mrs Pryce from the end house says it is bad luck to leave a clock still, but she has never sat under one waiting for a man who is not coming home.

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The men at the Bell pit say the air came up the shaft like a fist. Dai Morgan's wife has been in the chapel since Monday with her hair unpinned, and I did not go with her. I stood at the pit gate with a cup of tea going cold in my hands and counted the lamps as they came up, the way you taught me to count stitches in a shirt. There was always one short.

Last night I dreamt I was rubbing at my eye with a red handkerchief, and it came away wet. I woke with my cheek sticky and found nothing on the pillow but the dent your ring leaves in the cotton. Perhaps grief is only a tide that will not go out. I have hung your Sunday hat on the peg and set the hands of the clock to half past nine, the hour you always called the honest one.

I am going down to the gate again now, in case the cage comes up with a man I do not know. Yours, always, Nell. P.S. Tell the overman I will want the lamp back, the one with the dented brass.

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