Black fine line script reading Guide my feet with a small cross motif on the top of a foot.

Guide my feet script on a foot

Lettering · Other · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a black tattoo on the top of a bare foot, with the words Guide my feet written in cursive script. A thin cross or ankh-like motif sits beneath the lettering, drawn in fine black linework. The ink is uniformly black on light skin, and the foot fills the centre of the frame with a sandal and another leg visible at the edges.

Lettering Fine line Other Script Cross Foot

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tom, the carrier came through Holbeach on Thursday with your boots, which is more than the parish has managed for the bridge. I have had the cobbler stitch the left heel twice, because you walk on the outside of it like Father did, and I would rather you lost no more skin on the Wash road than you already have.

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Mrs Pell says you will not be home before the sowing, and that the bishop's men have put a new cross-post at the causeway end where the water came up in March. Mind it. The old drovers used to cut a cross into the wood there and say the words under their breath before they stepped out onto the mud, and I expect they were right to, since that path is nothing but reeds and the tide's own opinion.

I have had the words painted under a cross on the chapel board, though Father Anselm said it was vanity to put a man's business in lettering. I told him the words were not for you. They were for whoever crosses the sands after you. Guide my feet, the line goes, and I have thought about it every night since you left, that a man can only ask to be led and never carried.

Come home by the Sunday if the water allows. Bring the good knife back, and make sure the dog does not follow you to the sea again. Your loving sister, Agnes.