Black line drawing of an infinity symbol with three flying birds on the upper left and the word faith in cursive script, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.

Infinity symbol with birds and faith script

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A single continuous black line forms an infinity symbol, with three silhouetted birds flying up and away from the crossing point on the left loop. The word faith is written in a fine, flowing cursive script beneath the right loop. The design is monochrome with even line weight and open space around the motifs.

Fine line Infinity Bird Faith Script Line art

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Edwin, you will laugh at me, but I have kept the birds count the way Mother kept the tallies on the cottage beam. Three went up from the crossing this morning, past the place where the two lanes of the marsh road meet and run round again like a figure laid on its side. I stood on the causeway with the basket and watched them climb until they were specks above the Hollow Mere.

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Father always said a bird that flies out of sight has not gone, it has only gone round. He said it of the gulls, and of you the day you left for Ipswich. I did not believe him then. Now the pigeon-man at the quay swears the homing ones find their way back by the same loop every time, out along one curve and home along the other, so the track is never truly broken. I asked him how he knew. He only tapped his chest and said faith, which is a fine word for a man who cannot read it.

Mother's word is scratched on the inside of the cart door in her own hand, and I have decided it means the road, not the god. I am sending you the next bird in a reed tin with a strip of linen tied under its wing. If it comes back to the mere, you come back too, by the long way round. Do not argue. The gulls are already gathering over the water and the tide will be out by noon.