Fine line black tattoo of a small bird on a thin wavy line leading to the word Believe, on the inner wrist of a clenched hand.

Believe script and bird on wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A clenched hand is shown with the palm side of the wrist in view. A small bird sits on a thin, wavy black line that runs right to the script word Believe. The linework is delicate and even, in black ink on pale skin, with a plain light background.

Fine line Lettering Forearm Bird Word Script Line

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tomas, The guards at the crossing have stopped asking what the birds are for. Yesterday the younger one, a lad with a moustache he is clearly proud of, lifted the crate to the light and counted the rings on each leg as if numbers could smuggle anything. Only Pavel's old grey cock got past him without a word, because he sat on the lid and would not be moved.

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I am writing this on the back of a bus timetable, since the kiosk has no paper left and I have no stamps. You will laugh that I still post things this way. But the wire I strung between the poplars last spring has held through two storms, and this morning the hen came down it like a clothes peg sliding along a line, from your side to mine, with a scrap of thread knotted round her ankle.

Inside was one word in your careful capitals, the kind you used on the blackboard when we were boys. I held it up to the window for a long time, the way Mama used to hold up seed packets to check the date. It was not a question, and it was not an apology. It was only the thing you always said when the river ran high and the ferry would not go: keep the line tight, and trust the bird knows the way.

So I have tied my own message to the next one. Come on Sunday. Bring the crate. The guards will count the rings and find nothing wrong.

Yours, Ilie