Two bare feet showing black script lettering reading Heels on the left heel and Down on the right heel, in a Lettering style.

Heels and Down script tattoos on the heels

Lettering · Other · Black and grey · Photo

The photograph shows two bare feet viewed from behind, with the soles and heels facing the camera. Each heel carries a single word in black cursive script, reading Heels on the left and Down on the right. The linework is smooth and even, and the ink is set against pale skin on a dark blue background.

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Dear Tom,

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Your mother writes that you have been sent out to the Haddon place to learn horses, and I will not have you sulking about it the way you did at Easter. The mare is called Moll. She is older than you are sensible, which should suit you both.

Mr Pardoe will shout at you from the rail. Let him. He shouted at me for three summers and I came away with a seat like a church pew. The words you will hear until you dream them are heels down. Your toes want to point at the sky the moment you are frightened, and your heels lift like a kite string. Press them into the iron until your calves ache, and the saddle will hold you instead of the reins.

On the Saturday of the harvest fair, Moll shied at a tin bath that came bowling down the lane. I was up on the fence and saw you go sideways, one boot loose, and then I saw your heels drop without any thought from you at all. You sat down into her like a man settling into his own armchair. Pardoe said nothing, which from him is a medal.

Keep this letter in your coat. Next time the ground tilts, remember that the rest of you follows where the heels go. Your loving aunt, Edith.

P.S. Send me a drawing of the sea when you reach it. I have never seen it and I should like to.

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