Black line drawing design of a seated meditating figure with a small flower at the centre, above a five-line script quote, in fine line style, not shown on skin.

Meditating figure with flower and quote script

Fine line · Black and grey · Flash

A black ink line drawing of a seated meditating figure, with a stylised flower at the centre of the torso and a curved line beneath it. Below the figure, five lines of cursive script read Whatever comes, let it come, Whatever stays, let it stay, Whatever goes, let it go. The linework is thin and even on a plain white background, with no shading and no colour.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tomasz, the ferry is late again, so I am writing this on the bench outside the customs hut where the gulls keep stealing my crusts. The officer with the grey moustache checked my papers three times and then asked why I was crossing with only one suitcase. I told him the other one had gone down with the Lady Maud in March, and he did not write that down. He just stamped the page and nodded at the water as if it had said something to him.

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I have been thinking about your father's rules for the boat. Whatever comes over the side, let it come. Whatever stays in the hold, let it stay. Whatever goes over the rail in a gale, let it go. He painted those words on the lid of the tackle box in white enamel, and I used to read them out loud to the cat while he mended nets. I thought they were the saddest things I had ever heard. Now I think they were only instructions for keeping your hands free.

The ferry is in sight now, a grey smudge with a bent funnel. I have the tin with the lighthouse keys in my coat pocket, and I have decided to keep them. The rest of the things from the cottage I left with Mrs Haskett, who said she would sell the kettle to the man from Wick. Let him have it.

If you come down in the spring, bring the good tea, not the bags. I will be the one on the quay pretending not to look for you.

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