Small fine line tattoo of a pink rose with green leaves and a thin stem on the upper arm, shown in a close photograph.

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Small pink rose on the upper arm

Fine line · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

A small pink rose in bloom sits at the top of a thin green stem with three or four small leaves, all drawn in delicate linework. The petals use soft pink shading and the leaves are filled with muted green tones. The tattoo is centred on bare skin against a plain white shirt, with a softly blurred background on the left.

Fine line Botanical Upper arm Rose Leaves Stem Flower

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The frost had not yet lifted off the herb beds when Prior Edwin came down the cloister path with a spade already in his hand, as if it had been waiting for me. "The drain has to go under the east wall, Brother Anselm. The rose must come out." I looked at the bush climbing the warm stone, the one the first abbot is said to have planted, and said nothing, because I had been at Harrowmere long enough to know that silence was the only argument a lay brother was allowed.

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That afternoon, while the others were at Sext, I went to the rose with my penknife. I cut a length of stem no longer than my forefinger, pale green at the base and tipped with three small leaves, and wrapped it in a wet rag and pushed it inside my habit. My hands shook more than the cold could explain. Brother Gil, who kept the bees and saw most things, watched me from the hives and did not ask.

The cutting took in February, which Gil called foolish and I called stubborn, and by April it had put out a bud no bigger than a thumbnail. I kept it in a jam jar on the sill of the scriptorium, where the light came in thin and yellow over the copyists' desks. The drain was dug. The old bush went onto the rubbish cart, and the stone wall was swept clean.

When the bud opened into one pink rose, I carried the jar down to the novice who had been bent over his Latin all week and crying into it. I set it on his desk without a word. He looked at the flower, then at me, and for once I did not have to explain why a man might keep one small thing alive when everything around it had been dug out.