Black ink script letter B with the date 07.19.11 tattooed across two adjacent fingers of a hand, a lettering tattoo on the hand.

Matching script B and date tattoos on fingers

Lettering · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

Two adjacent fingers each carry a matching black ink design: a looped script letter B above the numerals 07.19.11. The linework is smooth and solid with even black ink and no shading, set against warm skin tones on a wooden surface. The close crop keeps both fingers central, with a second hand resting beside them.

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The porridge has caught again, and Cook says it's the third pot this week, so you scrape the black off the bottom with the back of a spoon while the Marigold rolls under you. The spoon's handle is stamped with a B and a row of numerals, the cheap issue from some chandler in Hull, the letters worn to a shine by a hundred hands before yours.

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Pell, the second steward, has a theory that the spoons came off a ferry broken up at Blyth, and that the B stands for Blyth. This is nonsense, because Pell also believes the gulls are reporting to the harbourmaster. You keep the spoon anyway. On the twenty-first night out, when the galley smelt of tar and burnt sugar, you found a second one wedged behind the flour bin, stamped with the same letter and the same numerals, and nobody aboard would own to it.

At the change of watch you take both spoons up on deck and hold them to the lamp. The numbers are faint but legible, a date that means nothing to the crew and everything to whoever pressed it in. You drop the spare over the rail. It turns once in the wash and is gone. The other you put in your apron pocket, where it knocks against your hip all the way back down the companionway, and you tell yourself that is only the rhythm of the ship.

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