Fine line black tattoo of an outlined heart joined to an ECG heartbeat trace on the inner wrist.

Heartbeat line with outlined heart on the wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A thin black outline of a heart on the left flows into a heartbeat trace that rises and falls across the skin towards the right. The linework is even and single-weight with no shading, and the design is shown in black ink on a light skin tone. The tattoo fills the centre of the frame, with the wrist crease visible above it.

Fine line Forearm Heart Heartbeat Outline Wrist

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Every spring the narrowboat Corncrake came up the Trent with a hold full of Staffordshire coal, and every spring the lock-keeper's wife, Hettie Sallow, walked the towpath beside her with a pencil behind one ear. She never asked the bargemen their names. She asked them to lay a palm on the tiller-rail, then counted the beats through the wood while the water talked against the hull.

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Then she drew. First a heart, one curve closing on itself, then a single unbroken line that ran out of the heart and rose and fell across the card to match the count. She never lifted the pencil. Her mother had told her that a line lifted is a line that can be lost, and a boat with a lost line goes over the weir in the dark and nobody hears her go.

The spring the Corncrake came up with a new skipper, a lad called Owen Parry who had never once been on the water in fog, Hettie drew his card and her pencil stopped. The line ran flat for the length of a held breath. Owen laughed and said it was only the gates groaning at Dunmere. Hettie kept her eyes on the paper. "Then tell me when it moves again," she said.

He did, a long while later, at the bottom of the lock with the gates shut and the lamp guttering. He felt the rail lift under his palm, once, and then again. Hettie came down the steps with the card in her hand, pressed the pencil to the paper where it had waited, and carried the line on from there.