Colourful botanical tattoo of a red spider lily on the ankle, with rainbow vines and a blue butterfly across the top of the foot.

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Spider lily, vines and butterfly on a foot

Botanical · Ankle · Colour · Photo

A red spider lily with long, curling petals sits on the ankle and shin, linked by swirling vines in red, orange, green, blue and purple to a blue butterfly on the top of the foot. The linework is fine and outlined, with some soft shading within the petals and butterfly wings. The bright colours stand out against the pale skin and dark leather-look surface, and the design wraps from the ankle down across the foot.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tomas, the red lilies came up along the towpath again on Tuesday, all at once, the way they do after the rain, with no leaves anywhere near them. Mam says they are only flowers and that I should stop going down to look at them at dusk, but they are the only thing on that bank that keeps its word. You said you would be back before they opened. They opened on the ninth.

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The vine that grew over the sluice gate last summer has finally reached the rail of the lock-house steps. I tied the green end to the iron with a strip of your old oilskin, the way you showed me, so it would hold. Every morning it climbs a little higher and curls back on itself, purple and orange where the sun reaches it, and this morning a blue butterfly was resting on the second loop as if it had been invited. I did not chase it off. I thought of you, because you always said the sea was just a long road with weather on it.

Come home on whatever tide the Kestrel will carry you. Mr Abbott at the lock says she is due at Gravesend by the first of October. I have ringed the date on the kitchen calendar in red, the same colour as the lilies, and I have stopped counting the days out loud because Mam says it makes the wait longer.

If you are reading this by the galley lamp with the ship swinging under you, eat something hot and do not trust the cook's bread. Your sister, Nell.

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