Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Strength on the inner wrist, with a sweater cuff visible below.

Strength script on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

The photograph shows the inner wrist and part of the hand, with the word Strength written in a flowing, cursive script across the wrist. The linework is thin and even, in solid black ink with no shading. The image is in black and white, with a plain light background and a knitted sleeve cuff at the bottom of the frame.

Fine line Lettering Forearm Strength Script Word Wrist

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

By the last week of August the Bramley limbs hang so low you can rest a bucket on them, and your grandmother has stopped pretending the orchard is hers alone. She hands you the secateurs at the gate and says nothing about the windfalls rotting in the grass, only that the old ash prop by the wall needs moving before the wind moves it for you.

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The Cox's tree on the terrace split along its fork in July. Nobody saw it go. You found it at dawn with fruit scattered across the grass like spilt coins and the bark peeled back, pale as a fresh cut loaf. Your grandmother knelt beside it with a ball of baler twine and a jar of wax. She trimmed the ragged wood clean, then bound the fork with a steel bolt she had carried up from the shed in her apron pocket. She did not hurry. She told you a sound tree bends before it breaks, and a split one needs something to lean on while it learns.

You prop it through the rest of the summer with two forked poles and a sling of old tyre rubber, checking the bind each morning while wasps drink from the fallen plums. In September a gale comes off the estuary hard enough to rattle the shed door, and you lie awake listening for the crack. It never comes.

Weeks later you find the spray book in the potting shed, the orchard's record in her small, forward-leaning hand. Beside the Cox's entry she has written the date of the split, then a line of plain pencil, then one word underlined twice, as if she had been speaking to the wood rather than the page: Strength.