Script phrase above the waistband
Fine line · Back · Black and grey · Photo
A black and white photograph of a thin cursive script tattoo reading I believe in miracles across the lower back. The linework is fine and even, with solid black strokes and no shading. The wording sits horizontally above the waistband of light-wash denim jeans, with the rest of the skin softly blurred in the background.
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Dear Nan Ivy, the frost has got into the byre pipes again and Dad says we'll be hauling water from the trough until March, so forgive the smudged hands on this paper. I found your old fountain pen in the dresser drawer, the one with the cracked green barrel, and it still writes if you hold it like you're apologising to it. I've been practising your hand from the back of the feed ledger, all those loops you used to make when you were counting ewes and pretending you weren't cross about the lambing.
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The vet came Tuesday for Blossom, the grey mare with the bad hock, and he said she'd not see the spring. I didn't argue with him. I sat in the straw with her head in my lap and told her what you used to say about the Ashby boys stealing apples, and she didn't flick an ear, but her breath went slow and even like she was listening. Mum says the mare is past help. I wrote the words on the back of my wrist in biro so I'd stop talking nonsense to the cattle, but they're still there, fading under my sleeve: I believe in miracles.
If you're reading this from wherever the postman can't reach, put in a good word for the mare. And if you can't manage that, tell me the trick with the frozen gate latch, because I've been kicking it for an hour and the ice is winning.
Your loving granddaughter, Hettie
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