A fine line black tattoo of a flamingo outline on the inner upper arm.

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Single-line flamingo on an inner arm

Fine line · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A small tattoo of a flamingo in profile, drawn as a single continuous outline with no shading or fill. The thin black linework shows the bird's curved neck, body and two thin legs standing on the skin. The flamingo sits centrally on a pale, smooth area of the inner arm against a plain light background.

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Dear Marta, the lorry put us down at the top of the pass at six, and the cold got into my teeth before I'd found my gloves. Below us the lake was the colour of weak tea with milk stirred in, and standing in the shallows were hundreds of flamingos, all facing the same way like a congregation waiting for the first hymn.

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Tomás, who drives that lorry and has crossed this pass since he was nineteen, showed me how to tell the old birds from the young ones by the way they stand. He said a flamingo never lifts both feet off the mud at once. It draws one leg up slowly, as if the lake might object. I tried to sketch one in my notebook, but I kept lifting the pencil, and every time I did the bird came out wrong, with a neck like a question mark and no body to hold it.

So I tried it the way Tomás's father taught him to trace a route on a map: one line, no stopping, from the road down to the water and back up again. The pencil went round the curve of the neck, along the back, down one leg and then the other, and I didn't let myself breathe until the sun cleared the ridge and the birds began to lift, pink and sudden, into the sky.

When I came back up the path Tomás was sitting on the bumper with the engine ticking. He took the notebook, turned it sideways, and said the bird was facing the wrong way for a flamingo. I laughed until the wind took the page out of my hand and we both had to chase it across the stones. I'm posting you the drawing anyway. Keep it somewhere flat. Love, Inés.

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