Traditional style tattoo of a woman with yellow flowers in her dark hair and an orange top, with the word divine written below, on the ankle.

Woman portrait with flowers and the word divine

Traditional · Ankle · Colour · Photo

A bust portrait of a woman with dark hair swept back and yellow and orange flowers tucked into it, shown in bold black outlines with flat red lips and orange shading on her shoulder and top. A small symbol sits near her shoulder, and the lowercase word divine is written in black script beneath the portrait. The design is centred on the lower leg, photographed straight on with the skin fairly evenly lit.

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Marguerite sells frangipani from a bucket outside the ferry shed, and she tells you the flowers only last a day if you handle them like gossip. You are the new girl at the Hotel Sirocco, sent to fold towels and keep out of the kitchen. Nobody mentions the poster on the harbour wall, the woman with black hair swept back and blossoms tucked above one ear, a face gone soft with sea damp and sun.

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On Thursdays the cook, Dimitri, lets you carry crates down to the boats. He says the poster was for the summer of the regatta, when a singer from Athens came to stay and performed every night from the terrace until the generator gave out. Word on the quay is she left owing money to half the island and one good pair of white gloves. "Divine," Dimitri says, tapping the faded word that sits under her chin like a signature, "that was what she called everything. The fish, the wine, the men who fought over her."

You find a programme in the bottom drawer of the reception desk, its corners curled, its song list ending with a line in pencil: come back for the flowers. The next morning you take a bloom from Marguerite's bucket and press it between the pages. At dusk you walk to the wall. The paint has flaked from the woman's shoulder, showing the plaster beneath, pale and patient, and the blossoms at her temple are still stubbornly yellow.

You tuck a fresh frangipani behind your own ear and hum the last song on the list, the one nobody on the island can remember the words to. The boats knock gently against the quay, keeping time.

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