Small black fine line fish symbol and script lettering reading before me with a cross on the wrist, photographed with the palm facing up.

Fish symbol and cross wrist tattoos

Fine line · Other · Black and grey · Photo

Two small black tattoos sit on the wrist: a simple outlined fish symbol on the left and fine script lettering on the right. The script reads before me, with a thin cross running through the letter t. The ink is solid black with no shading, against warm, lightly lit skin and a wooden background.

Fine line Lettering Other Fish Cross Script Word Wrist

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The ewe had been down in the far field since before the light, and when Ruth Pender finally reached her, the snow had drifted over the hurdle so the animal looked like a pale stone. Ruth knelt in it anyway. Her uncle's lantern hung from the gatepost, swinging a little, throwing its circle over the trodden path that ran from the barn to the wall.

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"Somebody's been out already," she said, pointing at the prints. Uncle Bert shook his head and said the prints were his father's, from forty winters back, when the lane had been a stream and the ewes had to be carried. He had not walked it in years. The prints were the same width as hers. She eased the lamb free with wet, careful hands. It came out grey and limp, and she rubbed it with straw until it sneezed.

Back in the kitchen, the range ticked as it cooled. Bert opened the ledger on the table, the one with the spine mended in brown tape. Each lambing had a date and a ewe's number, and in the margin beside an entry from 1963 someone had drawn a small fish, then a cross, and in pencil, 'before me', as if the writer had been reminding himself that the ground was already sown and the harder work had been done by someone else.

Ruth looked at the page for a long while. Then she wrote the new date beneath the old one, and the ewe's number, and under that she drew the fish, because her hand wanted something to sit beside the words. Bert did not stop her.