Small black lettering tattoo of a single capitalised word on an ankle, above a striped sock and white trainer.

Small word tattoo on the ankle

Lettering · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of an ankle showing a small tattoo of a single word set in capital letters in black ink. From this angle the letters appear upside down, and the word is set horizontally across the ankle bone. The skin tone is warm, the background is dark, and the grey turn-up of a trouser leg and striped socks sit above and below the tattoo.

Lettering Fine line Ankle Word Text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The ferry at Low Carrow ran on a rope strung from bank to bank, and the rope had to be fixed to the right oak or the boat would spin in the current until the men were sick over the side. Nobody in the village could read the old crown markers on the posts, so the ferrymen went by feel and by swearing.

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Edith Marl was the first in three generations to learn her letters from the chaplain's book. She spent a winter copying one word in capitals with a burnt stick onto a length of ash plank, and when her father asked what it said she told him it was the name of the boat. He nailed the plank beneath the bench where the ferryman sat, the letters facing the water, so that a man rowing back toward the near bank could see them mirrored in the wet and know which way was home.

After that the boat never once went round in circles. The river folk said the current had learned the word and kept to it, though Edith only said she had spelled it right. In spring the chaplain came down to cross, sat on that bench with his hat on his knees, and read the plank from where he sat. He said nothing for the whole length of the river. When they reached the far bank he got out, paid his penny, and asked her to tell him the word again, slower, so he could be sure of it.