Fine line black tattoo of two profiles facing each other on the upper back, with a woman's hair in a bun visible above.

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Two profiles in fine line on upper back

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A continuous single-line drawing shows two profile faces, one above and angled towards the other, with a small curved line below them. The linework is thin and mostly uniform in black ink, with no shading or colour. The tattoo sits centrally on the upper back, framed by bare skin, a white top and dark hair in a bun.

Fine line Back Profile Face Line art

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The grafting knife had to go in at the same slant on both stems, or the cambium would never meet. My father taught me that in the glasshouse at Lenham, one hand holding the scion, the other the rootstock, and never looking at the blade while you cut. Look at the join, he said. The join is where they decide.

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The pair we worked on that spring had never been planted together. A jackdaw had dropped a pip against the south wall, and the stock came up crooked, leaning across the path towards the old Cox as if trying to catch something it had said. Dad wanted to pull it. He stood with the secateurs open for a long moment, then said leave it, and we tied the union with raffia and a strip of waxed cloth.

That evening I sat on the back step and drew the two trees in my pocket book, one unbroken line so the pen never lifted, the way you draw a face you can't stop looking at. The small curve underneath was the wall, where the roots had gone under and found each other.

By August the graft had taken. Two trunks, one crown, apples on both sides that tasted faintly of each other. Dad died the winter after. I still prune them at the same slant, and every October I leave one fruit on the wall for the jackdaws, who seem to know whose it is.