Fine black line tattoo of a spoon on the inner forearm of a person in a dark sleeveless top.

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Spoon outline on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A single thin black outline of a spoon, with an oval bowl and a long handle that curves slightly toward the wrist. The linework is clean and unshaded, with no fill or colour. The photo is taken close up at an angle, with the forearm across the centre and a dark top and necklace visible behind it.

Fine line Forearm Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody on Inishcarrig could tell me where the spoon came from, only that it had always lived in Aunt Nora's drawer between the matchbox and the twine. It had a long handle that bent a little toward the end, as if it had grown used to leaning over pots, and an oval bowl worn thin on one edge from years of stirring mackerel stock. When the last boat in October carried my cousin off to the mainland with a suitcase and a grievance, she pressed the spoon into my hand and said I would need it more than the rest of them.

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I did not need it. I had a ferry timetable, a flat above the chandler's and a cooker that ran on bottled gas. But every Thursday I walked down to the harbour wall with the spoon in my coat pocket and watched the water come in over the weed. The island had one shop and one telephone box, and by February I knew the name of everyone who waited for the post boat, which was more than I knew about anyone in the city where I had grown up.

In March the post boat brought a letter in my cousin's hand. Inside was a note saying the mainland kitchen had no proper stirring spoon, and a photograph of a pot on a stove in a flat I had never seen. She had drawn a ring around a spoon on the windowsill in the picture, a plain one with a bend near the wrist. It was not the spoon in my pocket, and I understood then that she had never wanted it back at all. She had wanted me to be the one who kept it moving.

So I wrapped the spoon in a tea towel, wrote her name on the parcel and gave it to Donal at the post office, who weighed it on his palm and laughed at how little there was to send. The boat took it out past the lighthouse that evening, a small bend of metal in a sack of letters. I stood on the wall until its lights had gone under the horizon. Nora's drawer is empty now, and the gap where the spoon lay is the only thing in it I never have to wipe.