Small bow tattoo with a dark outline and pink fill sitting behind a person's ear on the neck.

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Small bow tattoo behind the ear

Neck · Mixed · Photo

A small bow is tattooed on the skin behind the ear, with a dark grey outline and a pink fill. The bow has two loops, a central knot and two tails that hang down. The photograph is a close, slightly soft view of the ear and hairline, with a stud earring visible and no face shown.

Neck Bow Ribbon

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The big top came down on a wet Tuesday in October, and by Thursday the only people left in the field at Ashby Fen were you, a grey mule called Duchess, and the pink ribbon you kept tying and untying behind your left ear because your hands needed something to do.

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Everyone else had gone. Vernon Pike sold his ringmaster's hat to a dealer in Boston to pay for the last of the diesel, and Ada, who walked the high wire without a net for nineteen seasons, took a job on a cruise ship out of Southampton and sent a postcard of a swimming pool with nothing written on the back. The wagons went first, then the caravans, then the generator, until the field was only mud, a few torn posters flapping on the hedge and the smell of sawdust going cold.

On Thursday evening Vernon came across the grass with an envelope. Your wages, he said, all of them, counted out in twenties. You told him to keep it for Duchess, who had carried the children's buckets for eleven years and deserved a field that did not flood. He laughed, the first time in weeks, and said it was the most circus thing anyone had ever said to him.

When the lorry lights swung off down the lane you walked to the gate with the ribbon in your hand. It had frayed at one tail where it caught on the tent pegs all summer. You pulled it back into a neat bow, pink gone soft as bread, and tied it again behind your ear where no one on the road could see it, then went to sit on the mule's broad back and watch the dark settle over the empty ring.