Two matching fine line geometric tattoos of circles and vertical lines sit on the inner forearms of two people holding hands.

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Matching geometric line tattoos on forearms

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

Two identical tattoos sit on the inner forearms of two people whose hands are clasped together. Each design is a vertical line with small horizontal ticks, a large open circle at the top, and smaller circles and short hatched marks along its length. The thin black linework is crisp and even, and the ink sits against pale skin with a denim jacket and a dark patterned skirt in the background.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The staff is still standing at the bottom of Harrow Lane, Nell, though the council has painted over our notches twice. I walked down on Sunday with the dog and stood where the water used to lap, and counted the marks the way your father taught us, one tick for each hand's width of rise above the stone.

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You will say I am being sentimental. Maybe I am. But you were the one who drew the circle first, on the back of an old pay slip, with the compass from the school drawer. You said a tide is only a circle that forgets to finish. I did the hatching because I was the one who wanted things counted. We inked the same mark onto our arms in the back room of the Crown with a sewing needle and a bottle of your mum's ink, and neither of us has ever been able to say it was a good idea.

Last week the river came over the path up to the third ring, the highest since the winter of the big frost. I stood on the bridge with the torch and thought of you down on the coast with your strange new job, measuring nothing but wind, and wondered whether the marks on your wrist still line up with mine when you hold your hand out flat.

I enclose a tracing. Hold it against your own arm and tell me it matches. If it does, the water is still rising at the same rate it always did, and we are still where we were, two girls at the bottom of the lane with our hands together, waiting to see how high it will go.