Script lettering quote design
Lettering · Black and grey · Flash
A black ink drawing of a handwritten quote in flowing script, reading Spirit, lead me where my trust is without borders. The monoline strokes have looped capitals and connecting tails, with no shading. The words are stacked in four centred lines on a plain white background.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
The net went to a scrapyard in Boston on the Tuesday, sold for the price of diesel to get the last two caravans as far as Spalding, and by Thursday you had stopped asking where it was. Nobody else asked either. The Carrow Brothers Travelling Circus had eleven ponies, one elephant that technically belonged to the bank, and a ringmaster who still signed his capitals on wage slips he could no longer pay.
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You found the card in the lining of the costume trunk, folded twice, in your grandmother's looping hand: Spirit, lead me where my trust is without borders. You read it aloud in the empty big top while rain drummed on the canvas, and it sounded less like a prayer than a set of instructions for a stunt. I told you that was the trouble with most prayers. Then you climbed the ladder with your chalk bag and your bad knee, and I held the rope for the last time, because the rope was all we had left to hold.
The trick is not the catch, I should have told you. The catch is only another pair of hands. What matters is the moment you let go of the bar with nothing ahead but air and the dark beyond the lamps, when you stop being a girl from Sleaford with debts in her pocket and become a shape going somewhere. I did not see your hands find his. I only saw the whole tent go quiet, and then the bar swinging back empty, rocking gently, like a gate nobody had bothered to shut.
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