Black fine line tattoo of the words let it be with a swirling tail and three small swallows, on the top of a woman's foot.

Let it be script and swallows on a foot

Fine line · Other · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo reads let it be followed by an ellipsis, written in a thin, slanted script with a long looping tail that curls back towards the ankle. Three small solid black swallow silhouettes sit beside the lettering, two flying close together and one further up near the toes. The ink is solid black on light skin, photographed against a pale blue cloth in a well-lit close-up.

Fine line Lettering Other Let it be Script Swallow Bird Swirl

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Every autumn the swallows gathered on the telegraph wire above Hollin Lane, and every autumn Mrs Parkin said they were arguing over who would go first. The reunion for the class of 1979 was held in the old schoolroom, now a village hall with a sprung floor and a hatch where the tea urn lived. Jim Ackroyd arrived late, carrying a carrier bag of photographs he had never got round to sorting.

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He found the one from the nature trip, a row of children squinting beside the beck, and at the end of the row a girl called Ellen Dove holding a jam jar she had been told not to open. Years ago, in the back of Mr Pargeter's exercise book, she had written that she wanted things to stay as they were. When Pargeter asked what she meant, she only said let it be, the way her gran said it over a pan of milk that refused to boil. Then she trailed off, and the sentence just stopped, with three dots after it, as if she had decided the rest could wait.

Ellen was not there. Someone said she had gone south for work and never come back to the valley. Jim stood by the hatch with the photograph going soft at the corners and his tea going cold, until an old woman he did not recognise pressed a brown envelope into his hand. Inside was a swallow's feather and a note in pencil: The birds go first, but they always come back to the same wire. You will know what to do with the rest of the sentence.