Black ink Om symbol tattoo on the inner forearm of a person wearing a white short-sleeved top and a dark wristband.

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Om symbol on a forearm

Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A solid black Om symbol sits on the outer forearm, drawn with a bold, even outline and filled with dark ink. The background shows a light wall with several black tribal-style designs and a dark mat at the bottom of the frame. The image is a straightforward, front-facing photo with the tattoo centred on the arm.

Forearm Om Symbol Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The men of Carrow Dale said the mountain hummed before it fell, and so when Tomas Hale pressed his palm to the wet face of the number four heading and felt the note come up through his wrist, he took off his cap and waited for the others to hear it too. Nobody spoke. The lamps hissed. Somewhere beyond the last prop a rock settled with a sound like a man letting out his breath.

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Old Dunstan, who had worked that seam for forty years, came down the incline with his knees cracking on every rung. He listened with his eyes shut. 'That's the deep note,' he said. 'My mother's people called it the sound the earth makes while it's still deciding.' He told them how, when he was a lad, a collier named Efa Price had sat in that same heading every shift and hummed back to the rock, one long note, then a sigh, then a closing hum, until the seam quit grumbling and the roof stopped lifting.

They laughed at him, but nobody left the face. Tomas fetched a stub of chalk from his tin and drew on the timber beside the wall the shape Efa had used, a curve like a sleeping hound with a point above its head, and under it a loop that closed on itself. He sang the note through his teeth while the others tapped their lamps against their helmets to keep time. The hum thinned, wavered, then settled into a low steady drone that climbed no further.

They brought the coal up at the end of the shift and nothing was lost. On the lamp-room door at the pithead, a child who had come to fetch his father wrote the same mark in soot with one finger, and it was still there the following spring, smudged but whole.