Close-up of a woman's forearm with black script lettering reading confía en tu corazón, with her smiling mouth and a pendant necklace visible.

Spanish script lettering on a forearm

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A close-up of a smiling woman showing a line of black cursive script on the inside of her forearm, reading confía en tu corazón, which is Spanish. The lettering is a clean, fairly fine monoline script with even, flowing strokes and a few looped capitals. The image has a warm, soft-focus tone with a pale background, and the frame is cropped above the nose so only the mouth, chin and neck appear.

Lettering Forearm Script Word Necklace

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Teo, the 7.40 from Valencia will be full of men carrying toolboxes, so take the window seat and keep your elbows to yourself. Your father would have told you to stop checking the passport. I told him to let you check it as many times as you like, because a boy who is leaving for a new country is allowed to be nervous about the paper that brings him back.

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The kitchen shutters are still stuck half open. I have left them that way on purpose, so the light from the square comes in while I iron the white shirt for your interview. It is folded in the drawer under the tin of saffron, next to the small silver heart on its thin chain that you wore to your first communion. Do not argue. It is not for luck. It is so you remember there is a reason to come back up the stairs.

I have been thinking about what I should have said at the station, when you stood with your suitcase and pretended the rain was only spitting. I should have said the thing I wrote on the back of the bakery receipt and tucked into your coat pocket, not the thing about the cold. Read it once the doors have closed. Then do what your heart tells you, even when it is shouting louder than the announcements.

Confía en tu corazón. Trust it, and write to me on Sundays, when the bells are loud enough to cover the telephone.

Mamá