Fine line tattoo of a red watercolour poppy on the upper back, with cursive script running down the spine, shown in a full view and a close-up.

Red poppy and script down the spine

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A red poppy with a soft, watercolour-style wash sits at the top of a thin black stem on the upper back. Below it, a line of cursive script runs down the centre of the spine, drawn in fine, even linework. The photograph shows a full view of the back on the left and a close-up of the flower and text on the right.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Your mum says you won't be back for the christening, so I'm posting the seeds instead. Don't laugh. They came out of the red poppy by the bin store, the one the council keep cutting back, and I've wrapped them in a page of the Radio Times with the crossword I never finished. Seven seeds, I counted twice, so one of them is yours to lose.

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Fourteen floors up on Harrow Court the wind has a mind of its own. It took the first lot clean off the balcony before I'd sealed the envelope, so I've been down with a torch on my knees, feeling about in the gravel of the window box like a fool. Mr Okafor from flat nine says poppies don't like being shut in, but he says that about everything, including his wife's cooking and the lift.

I wrote your grandad's name on the back so you'd know whose they were. Then I thought, no, he'll know the hand. Every birthday card you ever had from me went out in this same slanting writing, the joined-up bit you children all stopped learning at school. I kept the loops tight so the words would run on down the page like a thread.

Plant them where the sun gets to them first, love. They're hardier than they look, like most things that grow round here.

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