Black script lettering tattoo across two lines on the upper back near the shoulder blade, with a white and orange strap visible.

Script quote tattoo on upper back

Lettering · Back · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of two lines of black cursive script lettering on the upper back, close to the shoulder blade. The linework is fine and even, with the ink appearing as dark grey to black on the skin. The composition is tightly framed on the shoulder and back, with a dark background and a white and orange bra strap at the right edge.

Lettering Back Script Quote Lettering Text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Nell, the ferry didn't go out again today, so I've had the whole afternoon on the harbour wall being cross with the gulls. Your father would have had them off the chip paper by now. I'm writing on the back of a tide table because the good paper is in the drawer under the chart, and that drawer sticks, and I haven't the patience.

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Mr Gosling came round from the yard this morning with the new planks for the Marigold. He stood in the kitchen turning his cap in his hands until I asked him what he was working up to. He said the boat was rotten through at the stern and he wouldn't put his name to her. I told him she'd been rotten at the stern for thirty years and still got the Hallows crossing every March, and he laughed, which is more than the council has managed in a decade.

You kept saying in the spring that you couldn't go back on the water, that the sea had taken your nerve along with your brother. I wrote it out in my best hand and pinned it above the stove so you'd have something to look at besides the kettle. You're stronger than you think, love. You always were, even when you were small enough to be carried up the gangway under one arm and told to stop kicking.

Come down on Saturday's boat. I'll have the kettle on and the tiller oiled. If the crossing's rough, hold the rail, and I won't say a word about it.