Black line drawing of a sunflower with a curling stem and two leaves, in a botanical style, shown as a tattoo design without any body placement.

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Sunflower line drawing with leaves

Botanical · Black and grey · Flash

A detailed black outline drawing of a sunflower head with layered petals, a dense seed-filled centre and a curling stem. Two broad leaves frame the flower, with veins and fine hatching marking their surfaces. The design is drawn in black linework on a plain white background with no shading or colour.

Botanical Sunflower Leaf Stem Petal Seed head

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The mule refused the last switchback above Kessa, so I unloaded the sacks myself and carried them up on my back, one at a time, while the wind tried to take my hat. Father used to say the pass was only a wall until you stopped arguing with it. He said a great many things like that, most of them over the stove in October, when the seed heads were brown and heavy and he was counting coins out on the oilcloth.

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Every September we carried sunflower seed down from the high terraces to the valley markets, forty kilos at a time, packed in sacking that smelled of oil and dust. The seed was the easy part. What the pass really took was patience, and Father had plenty of it while I had none. I wanted the new road, a lorry that could take the lot in a single morning, and I told him so every year, and every year he laughed and reached for the kettle.

The winter he died, I found a sunflower growing out of a crack beside the cairn at the summit, a single head no taller than my knee. Nobody had planted it. A bird must have dropped a seed from a load. It had grown with its back to the snow and its face turned down the eastern slope, toward the valley road where Father's cart always went first.

I left it where it was. I still come up each September with the sacks on my back, and each year the head has swung a little further round, following the sun up over the ridge the way he used to watch for it from the doorway. I have stopped asking it to face the other way.