Close photo of a hand with a black ornamental mandala tattoo across the back of the hand and wrist, plus small geometric tattoos on the fingers.

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Ornamental mandala hand tattoo with finger designs

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The image shows a hand and fingers, cropped so no face is visible, with black ink tattoos. A large symmetrical mandala with paisley-like curves covers the back of the hand and extends towards the wrist, while small geometric motifs sit on several fingers. The ink is black and grey, set against dark nail polish, rings, bracelets and a white crystal stone on a navy top.

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Dear Nasrin,

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The officer at Ostra kept my pattern book for the better part of an hour. He turned the pages with a licked thumb, stopping at the paisley drawings Father copied from the tiles in Kashan, and asked whether the curls were a code. I told him they were only the tails of a leaf that had been folding in on itself for two hundred years. He did not laugh. He wrote something in his ledger and stamped my papers twice.

I have done what you asked. The palm piece is inked on the stiff card you will find under the pistachios, a mandala the size of a saucer with seven tails curling inward from the rim. Father always said to leave the last curl unfinished, because a pattern that closes is a pattern that stops. So I left a gap at the wrist, where the lines run down towards the bone like streams finding their way to a delta.

When he finally handed the book back, he asked what the small triangles in the margins meant. I said they were counts, one for each cousin who wants to be married the old way. It was half true, which is the only honest way I know to cross a border.

When the bus pulled away from the checkpoint I opened the tin and laid the card on my knee. The ink at the gap was still soft, a little bleed where the nib had rested too long. I pressed my own palm over the drawing and felt the cold ring of the stamp through the paper. Come on Thursday, while it still smells of the workshop.

Your sister, Mahin

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