Red and blue linework tattoo of an anatomical heart with arrows and the word BOOM on a chest, partly covered by two silver pendants on a chain.

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Anatomical heart on the chest

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A tattoo of an anatomical heart with its vessels drawn in red and blue outline, with arrows pointing outward and the word BOOM near the lower left. Two silver medallion pendants hang over the centre of the design on a fine chain. The image is a close crop of the upper chest, with the heart filling most of the frame.

Chest Heart Anatomical heart Arrow Necklace Pendant Medallion

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The winter the heifers calved early, my uncle Dennis spent three nights in the lambing shed with a biro and the anatomy book from the Co-op. By the end of it every blank page in the feed ledger had a heart on it. He drew the veins he could see in blue and the ones he had only read about in red, and wherever the blood was meant to go he put an arrow pointing outward, as if everything in a body was trying to leave it.

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Aunt Joan kept the farm accounts and thought the drawings were morbid. Dennis told her the arrows were the point. A heart was a pump with a door in the wrong place, he said, and it was always going off like a firework. He wrote BOOM by the lower corner of the best one, and Joan laughed properly for the first time since the thaw had failed to come.

That February he took her to the market in Kendal and bought two silver medallions from a stall run by a man with frozen fingers. Someone had stamped French words round the rims, RAISEUSE, CHARMEUSE, LASCIVE, which the stallholder swore were from a music hall in Paris. Dennis hung them on a fine chain around her neck in the car park, and she wore them to the sale without once explaining them to anybody.

In April, when the ice had gone off the top field, I found the ledger on the Aga rail. On the last page there was one more heart, drawn fast, the arrows all pointing at the kitchen door, and beside them in capitals the word he used whenever a calf came right.