Colour traditional tattoo of an anchor wrapped in rope with a teal wash behind it, on the top of a foot below the toes.

Anchor and rope on the foot

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A close photograph of a foot with a traditional-style anchor wrapped in twisted rope, rendered in bold black outlines. Red and yellow fill the anchor and rope, with a teal wash behind them that suggests water. The tattoo fills the centre of the foot and the frame is taken straight on against a textured beige carpet.

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Tom, the Harriet came in on Tuesday with her bow stove in and the anchor still hanging off the chain where you left it. Mr Pryce had the men cut the rope free before anyone thought to ask me, and I told him to leave the rest of it be. Your father's splice is in that rope yet, the three tucks he always said were one too many, and I was not going to let a stranger's knot undo it.

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The Gazette says the sea took eleven hands off the Northumbria in March. I have been counting the names at the kitchen table every morning, the way you used to count gulls off the mainsail. Mrs Coulter came round with a tin of parkin and sat with her hands folded in her lap, saying nothing, which was kinder than the vicar. I walked her to the gate after. The harbour water was that green colour you once called the only honest colour in England, and I thought of you, and then I stopped thinking of you, because it does no good.

So I have done the thing you would laugh at. I took the spare length of hemp from the back shed and worked the bowline the way you showed me on the scullery table, over and over until my palms split. It hangs on the nail beside the door now, coiled once, with the little brass ring through it.

When you come home you will have to untie it yourself. I will be standing right here, so mind you do it properly.

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