Black and grey photo of two forearms, each with a small serif word tattooed on the skin: her on one arm and him on the other.

Matching her and him lettering on forearms

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

Two forearms are shown side by side, each with a small lowercase word in a serif typeface, one reading 'her,' and the other 'him,'. The linework is fine and crisp in solid black ink, with the skin rendered in soft greys. The plain dark background and close framing keep attention on the two words.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Ruth Ackroyd had the comma in her tweezers and the forme already locked by the window. The chapbook was sixty copies of nine poems, and the last one began with two words and then stopped: her, and then him, with no verb to carry them on. Mr Pilling, who owned the press, had rung twice that morning to ask whether the mistake belonged to the typesetter or the poet.

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It belonged to neither. The poet had posted the manuscript from a bus shelter in Wakefield with a note in pencil: leave the gap, they'll know what goes after. Ruth had set type for thirty-one years, and she knew a comma was a promise to keep going, not a place to stop. She inked the proof, pulled it through the press, and held the sheet up to the lamp to check the spacing.

The two words sat alone on the white page, each with its small hook of a comma, and the margins were wide enough that nothing else could crowd in. Ruth saw then that the poem had never needed a verb. It needed the reader to lean forward and wait, the way a kettle waits before it sings. When Pilling came in with his coat still on, he read the page twice and said nothing at all about the invoice.

"Print them as they are," she told him, and locked the forme for the morning run.

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