Black and grey photo of a fine line arrow tattoo on the fingers of a hand, with the arrowhead on one finger and the fletching on the adjacent finger.

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Fine line arrow across two fingers

Fine line · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

Two hands are pressed together, with a single thin black arrow running across two adjacent fingers. The arrow has a small heart-shaped head at the top and feathered fletching at the bottom, drawn in delicate single-weight linework. The image is black and grey, with soft natural light and a pale wooden floor in the background.

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The lock-keeper at Hollin Weir painted an arrow on the balance beam the spring my aunt Dot and I bought the Marigold, and nobody on the moorings could say why it pointed the way the water ran instead of the way we were heading. Dot said it was a sighting mark for fools like us. She had a rule that you read a river by what it leaves on the bank, and a boat by what it asks of you. The Marigold asked for two people on the windlass and one on the rope, so for six summers it was just the two of us, shouting over the lock gates and eating tinned peaches on the roof.

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The year Dot's knees gave out, she stopped coming up the locks and sat on the stern with a flask and a crossword, calling directions in a voice that carried better than any boatman's. I learned to leave the bollard loose, to feel the boat sink as the water drained, to trust the cold iron ladder under my palms. When the gate was finally wide enough, she would reach across the gap and tap two fingers against mine on the rail, the way you tap a barometer to see if it's stuck. That was her all clear.

Dot died in February, in a bed in town, and I brought the Marigold down alone. At Hollin Weir the lock-keeper's grandson was repainting the beam. He had kept the arrow, though the heart at its head had faded to a smudge. I stood on the bank with my thumb against the wood, rubbing until the old paint lifted and the grain showed through, pale and clean, still pointing downstream. Then I cast off, and let the current take us where it wanted.

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