Fine line black outline tattoo of the state of Michigan with a small red heart on the inner wrist.

Michigan outline with red heart on wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A thin black outline of the US state of Michigan, showing both peninsulas, sits on the inner wrist and forearm. A small solid red heart is placed on the lower eastern edge of the lower peninsula. The linework is even and clean, with no shading, and the plain background of bedding is softly out of focus.

Fine line Forearm Map State outline Heart Wrist

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The grey Buick had been idling at my booth for a full minute before the driver wound his window down, and when he finally spoke he unfolded a road map across the steering wheel like a tablecloth. Michigan, both halves of it, with a red felt-tip heart drawn low on the eastern edge, near the water. 'That's where we're going,' he said. I asked him the purpose of the visit, how long he meant to stay, whether he had anything to declare. Eleven years at this booth and I know the answers people give before they give them.

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He kept looking past me at the river, where the fog was lifting off the Detroit side and a tanker moved slow as a cathedral. His wife sat in the passenger seat with a shoebox on her knees. She had been born in Windsor, he told me, and her mother had been born in Port Huron, and for fifty years the two of them had been crossing back and forth to visit a town neither of them lived in. The box held letters, not clothes. He didn't say whose letters, and I didn't ask.

I stamped the card and handed it back. Then I saw the map had slipped from the dashboard into the footwell, and the heart had caught the light from the booth. I picked it up and passed it through the window. He thanked me, folded it along its old creases, and tucked it under his arm as if it were something that might be needed again. The barrier lifted. I watched their taillights climb the ramp towards the bridge, and the red mark stayed with me longer than it should have.