Fine line black ink tattoo of bare trees standing in shallow water with a low shoreline, placed on the inner forearm.

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Bare trees rising from water on a forearm

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A row of bare trees with thin trunks and sparse branches stands in shallow water, with a low wooded shoreline on the left. The linework is fine and delicate, with light shading in the water and along the trunks. The design is in black ink only and stretches across the forearm against a pale skin tone and a light fabric background.

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Day nine of the shoreline survey, and the water has risen another hand's width since Tuesday. Mr Okafor from the water board says the level is holding. He has never rowed out to Keld Bridge in a flat-bottomed boat with a clipboard under one arm and a flask wedged between his knees, so I don't pass the comment on.

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The trees are the form's problem, not mine. Section C asks for every standing trunk within the old field boundary, and the boundary runs straight through the drowned hedgerow. I have counted eleven upright, four leaning, and one split crown on the western bank that Mrs Pryce used to call the Bishop, because it looked like it was about to give a sermon. The alders on the island are thinner than they were in June. Something has been stripping their bark, and I have decided it's the herons, because the alternative is a conversation I'm not paid for.

What the form doesn't ask is what the water does with them. Every trunk has a second trunk beneath it, pale and wavering, rooted in the sky. In the early light you can't tell which one the boat is sitting on. I tried to draw the line where the wood stops and the reflection begins, and my pencil kept going down.

At half four I packed up. On the way back I counted again from memory, out of habit. Twenty-two standing in the water and twenty-two below them, and I could not, for the life of me, make the second row stop at the surface. I wrote fifteen, the number the board wants, and underlined it so nobody would ask me to count the rest.

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