Two people holding hands, each with a small black anchor tattoo on the inner wrist, shown against a dark background.

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Matching anchor tattoos on two wrists

Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

Two wrists are shown with hands clasped, and each has a simple black anchor tattoo on the inner wrist. The anchors use solid black lines with a vertical shank, a crossbar and curved flukes. The background is almost entirely black, which places the two tattoos as the main focus of the frame.

Forearm Anchor Matching tattoo Holding hands Wrist Couple

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The ink is still tacky when Eddie grips your hand across the bar of the Ship Inn, and the whole room pretends not to watch. Old Harrow, who tattoos on the quay with a sewing-machine motor he swears was German, has wrapped both wrists in gauze and tied the ends with fishing twine. 'Keep them out of the brine a week,' he says, 'or the anchors will run like a bad letter.'

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The Marisol sails on the morning tide for the Dogger Bank, and you will be on the cliff road with the baker's daughter's bicycle and a paper bag of broken biscuits. Eddie wants a mark that stays put while the sea does what it likes. You tell him an anchor is a poor gift for a man who is going away, since it only ever holds still at the bottom of things. He laughs and says that is precisely the point, and he says it with his mouth against your temple so the bar cannot hear.

Three weeks later the wind goes round to the west and the lifeboat maroons fire at four. You stand on the wall with your sleeves pushed up, the lines gone soft and grey at the edges, and you watch the Marisol come in low and slow with all her hands still aboard. Eddie steps onto the quay first, sea-salt stiff in his hair, and reaches for you before he reaches for the rope. He takes your wrist. The two anchors lie side by side in the lamplight, two black hooks that have finally found something to catch on.