Drawing of a rose design with a red looping outline bloom, black stem and two black leaves on a white background, with no body part shown.

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Single rose line drawing design

Botanical · Mixed · Flash

A single rose drawn as a stylised bloom made of loose, looping red outlines, set on a black stem with two open black leaves. The linework is bold and mostly unshaded, with the red bloom and black stem giving the design a simple, graphic look. The rose sits at the top of the frame with the stem running down the centre on a plain white background.

Botanical Rose Stem Leaves Flower

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The last rose in the valley bloomed on the Tuesday before the frost, and Maud had promised it to nobody, which is how the stranger found her kneeling in the cold bed with the secateurs in her lap. He wanted the bloom for a wedding. He had a cart, a purse and a sorry look, and when she said no he only nodded and asked for a pen instead.

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She fetched the ink pot from the dresser because it was easier than arguing. He sat on the step, put the nib to a scrap of cartridge paper, and drew without once lifting it. The line went round and round, looping over itself like a ribbon left loose in a drawer, until a bloom sat at the top of the page. Then it ran down, thin and sure, to the stem. He set two leaves on the stalk, open as cupped hands, and handed her the sheet.

Maud carried the drawing into the house and propped it on the windowsill, meaning only to keep it out of the rain. By morning the frost had taken the real rose, black at the edges and folded in on itself. The paper was still dry. The red loops had not faded, and when she held it to the grey light they seemed to glow, the way a coal does when someone blows across it.

The stranger had gone by then, but the cart tracks led east over the ridge. Maud kept the sheet in the dresser drawer beside the ink pot and never planted another rose, though the neighbours asked her why. Every winter she took it out, and every winter the red was still there, looping and looping, never quite finishing its way back to where it began.