Two matching black outline triangle tattoos, one on each ankle, shown with white sneakers and a flip flop on a wooden deck.

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Double triangle outline tattoos on ankles

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

Two pairs of overlapping outline triangles sit on the ankles of a person whose feet rest on a wooden deck. The linework is solid black and fine, with the triangles offset slightly so each one shows a layered double outline. The image is in black and grey, with white sneakers and a black flip flop in the background.

Fine line Geometric Ankle Triangle Outline Ankle Geometric shape

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody at the river authority would admit to drawing the triangles on the sea wall at Scarrow Point, but everybody knew the outlines had been there longer than the sluice gate. There were two of them, the second nested a finger's width inside the first and nudged sideways, as if it had tried to catch up and given up halfway.

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I took the job because the authority wanted a fixed bearing for the new silt channel, and the old marks were out by eleven degrees. Dennis, who had surveyed that estuary for thirty-one years, drove me out in a Land Rover with a dented roof and said the triangles were the only honest thing on the whole bank. He sighted his theodolite on the point of the outer one, then the inner, and made me write both readings down without comment.

The numbers didn't agree. Dennis laughed for a full minute, then showed me his pocket ledger, where a woman's handwriting from 1968 had recorded the same two readings and the same mismatch. Each one was correct, she had written underneath, only taken from a different tide.

We set the new bench mark in the mud midway between the two points, where the water would cover it twice a day and leave it again. I still have the sketch in my drawer. Some mornings I think the triangles were never meant to line up. They were meant to show that the bank was moving, and that someone had bothered to measure it.