Close-up of a small fine line vine tattoo on an ankle, worn with striped flats and cropped blue jeans.

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Fine line vine tattoo on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A small, thin linework tattoo of a curling vine or stem runs along the side of the ankle. The lines are delicate and even with no visible shading, and the ink reads as dark grey against the skin. The shot shows a person's legs in cropped jeans and striped slip-on flats on a pale paved surface.

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The bindweed had got into the tiller board again, so I was kneeling on the stern of the Ada Mae with the secateurs when the lock-keeper's boy came running down the towpath shouting that the timber barge would be through on the flood by four.

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My father had trained that vine up the cabin side the summer I was nine. He called it the runner, though I never knew whether that was the plant's name or just a word he'd picked up from his own father. Every spring it crept along the gunwale, and every autumn he cut it back to the rail, and every spring it came again, thin and stubborn, reaching for anything with a hold. The surveyor had said the boat would fetch more without it. Rot, he said, goes in under green things.

I cut the big stems first. Ten minutes of work left the rail bare and grey. Then I came to the last curl, the one that had threaded through the gap in the tiller board where he'd fixed a hinge with a bent nail. It had rooted there. Pale threads ran into the wood as though it meant to stay. I pulled, and the board groaned, and I thought of his hands on that same wood, and I stopped.

The timber barge came round the bend with its bow wave slapping the bank. The boy yelled at me to shift. I didn't. I left the one curl where it was, a dark green loop tangled round the brass, and when the buyer asked on Monday why the boat looked half finished, I told him it was still growing.

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